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Bishops not all bad magnitude involving a complete rever- serving is an inference drawn by Cor- Charles V. Willie's article on women sal of custom and tradition ends up win and not a conclusion of this author. bishops, "No doubt about it," (March based on guesswork, I wonder. Also my essay on women as bishops WITNESS) is a learned and dramatic Prof. Willie writes, "If women are did not state that men as a rule are more support of the elevation of ladies to the called to be bishops, my guess is they harmful and less helpful. Again, this is episcopate, and in spite of my own are called to do these things because Corwin's inference. For the record, my doubts, it seems almost an exercise in they are helpful and not harmful." That article simply stated that "If men are futility not to accept that this is going to seems to infer that men as a rule are not more helpful as bishops than happen, come hell or high water, in the more harmful and less helpful. If that is women could be, and if women are not not too distant future. That will give us true, then perhaps the ultimate step is to more harmful as bishops as men have publication. a first-hand opportunity to determine have only women in Holy Orders. been, why should either gender be ex- and whether women will be better suited to My argument is not that women cluded from this office?" My question that office than many men who are now should not be elevated to the episco- deserves a straightforward answer. reuse bishops, as Prof. Willie indicates. pate. But I cannot accept the fact that Despite Corwin's selective emphasis for However, when Prof. Willie speaks they will per se be more helpful and and awareness of the ideas contained in about the self-serving and arbitrary ac- less harmful than men. Men and women my article, I am pleased that he believes tions of our bishops, I assume he are first human beings, and regardless "the elevation of (women) to the epis- required doesn't apply this to all, although his of sex, there are rotten apples in every copate" is an action that "is going to language could be interpreted to apply barrel. I will probably not be around happen." This is a profound opinion and to a majority. If we have some bishops long enough to see how this works out. I am grateful to him for sharing it. In any event, these next few decades

Permission who have lost sight of their servant role, Charles V. Willie then they should be replaced. But over may be years that test our love and Harvard University faith, and our very souls. 77 years, I have known many bishops Cambridge, Mass.

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/ and have found that they are in fact, just human beings who have their faults. Colonial Beach, Va. Except for a very few, they are not self- Kudos from PB Church centered, materialistic, greedy persons Willie responds I think Susan Pierce's report on Central America is superb. (See April, May is- primarily concerned with self-preserva- Selective reading, understanding, and sues.) It is really written with a lot of tion and the exercise of authority in an awareness is a problem that we all ex-

Episcopal sensitivity and I think it will mean a lot arbitrary manner. Nor have they lost the perience from time to time. Charles

the to the people in Central America. servant attitude toward priests and laity Corwin's letter manifests this problem. of Edmond L. Browning in their dioceses. My article about women as bishops did Presiding Bishop I also question whether we in this not label bishops as self-serving. It The Episcopal Church now generation are any better qualified stated that by majority vote the House Archives to determine the will of God in areas of Bishops, meeting in Chicago during where we approve change which is so the summer of 1974, committed the er- Wrong church? 2020. opposite to the customs and traditions ror of defending the faith against We have not renewed because we find of our ancestors, who served this Body change of the gender of persons in the the policies of THE WITNESS to be of Christ so well over the past 2000 priesthood, and of absolutizing the rela- contrary to the true and traditional- Copyright years. Obviously they would not have tive by calling into question the validity teachings of Christ's church. accepted the ordination of women, nor of the newly desegregated priesthood The Rev. John L. Goeb their elevation to the episcopate, but if which was accomplished in July of that Milwaukee, Wise. they had, I doubt that they would have year. considered women better qualified to be To assert that some bishops commit- bishops than men. ted an error does not suggest that they Redemptive suffering Although Prof. Willie has written a were self-serving. Any inference that Mary Lou Suhor's star-spangled essay very logically argued treatise, he ends bishops who did not support the women (April WITNESS) was arrow-straight to up with guesses. When a change of this who were ordained July 1974 were self- the heart of redemptive suffering. She

THE WITNESS took me with her from the first leap, gist in Utah, is doing great work with ness of homophobia." It is based on a through landing, through hospital hugs. Mormon women (three generations in talk he gave at our AIDS Conference at Everyone's pain was palpable. Whoa- one family!) who have survived child St. Thomas' Church, Whitemarsh, ear- sa! abuse/incest. I have sent her a copy of lier this year. WITNESS readers may be She wrote a meditation on transfor- Roberta Nobleman's "Call it not love." interested in a resolution passed by our mation by patient (pun) intention as It is about time the Episcopal Church vestry recently which reads: well as on healing process and the faced that problem, just as the author Whereas we are all made in the im- prayer-of-being. Remember the Bernard says. age of God, and we are all equally and of Clairveaux quote? "God puts us on Thank you again for all the good unconditionally loved by God just as we our backs to make us look up." I pray reading — and the insights that reading are; and

publication. her roommate is healing, too. brought. Whereas we are all called upon to Alia Renee Bozarth Nancy S. Montgomery love one another in the spirit of God's and Sandy, Ore. Washington, D.C. love for each of us; and Whereas in Christ we learn that all reuse people have a right to respect and jus- for Prays for healing tice; and Identity with humanity My tears flowed as I read "Star Whereas we envision the community It gladdens my heart to see what an in- Spangled Suffering." I imagine I'm not

required of St. Thomas' as embracing the values spiration Mary Lou Suhor has turned the only person to react that way, either. of human relationships revealed by God her suffering into — not a pious admo- Since I belong to the Companions of in Christ; and nition to accept pain as a blessing, but the Society of the Holy Cross in which an identification of her pain with that of intercessions for others is a major part Whereas Lesbian/Gay persons are of- Permission humanity. Identification, not compari- of our Rule, Mary Lou Suhor's name is ten scorned by society and feel alien- son; even there she avoided using other now on my intercession list and will be ated from many communities in our culture; DFMS. people's greater suffering as a palliative sent to all 800 of us through our / for her own. She did not say, "think of monthly "Intercession Paper." May the Therefore, it is necessary to affirm by the Nicaraguan war victims who don't power in our prayers add to her healing. official resolution that:

Church have morphine." She said, "My theol- Lesbian/Gay persons are welcome Doris Boyd within the community of St. Thomas' ogy had not caught up with my condi- Beverly, Mass. tion ... the chain rattles for all of us." Church to share in the liturgy and life of (I am so humbled, and grateful, for the our parish family, and are also welcome Episcopal Brava! varied and touching responses which Margaret D. Wilde to seek employment and leadership in the came in after my parachuting accident. our parish. of Bethlehem, Pa. The prayers, especially, have sustained Annette Irvin, Chair me and sent my spirits soaring, even AIDS Conference though I have been grounded. — Ed.)

Archives April sparked insights What a fine April issue of THE WIT- Security threatened 2020. NESS! You are singularly fortunate to Keeping us honest? I am writing to ask you to change the have a young person with writing skills Why don't you drop your pretense of of the quality that Susan Pierce shows. address of my subscription to THE being Christian? Wouldn't it be more WITNESS from my El Salvador ad- Copyright And she's only beginning — what the honest? dress to an address in the States. future will bring should be challenging. The Rev. Theron A. Vallee It appears the commitment of THE And the description of Mary Lou Woodstown, N J. Suhor's accident and recovery had me WITNESS to the cause of peace and close to tears. Pain is such a personal justice is a little too well known for my security. I recently received the March thing and certainly the experience is Parish welcomes gays issue which had letters referring to the hard to impart in such a way that the It is with deep satisfaction that I read in January issue on El Salvador. I was reader feels a part of it. the March WITNESS Richard Hawkins' A friend of mine, a clinical psycholo- theological reflection, "Curing the sick- Continued on page 21

June 1988 THE WITNESS

EDITOR Mary Lou Suhor

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THE WITNESS Editorial

Union busting — against the common good

/\rcr chbishop Desmond Tutu's recent Catholic agencies in institutions, and — Practical wisdom would lead an presence in the United States, together more than one half of Roman Catholic administrator, when faced by a union with the story in this issue on union- dioceses have at least one agency or organizing campaign, to seek the pro- publication. busting, recall a grim scenario at the institution whose workers are repre- fessional council of a third party who and 1982 General Convention of the Epis- sented by a union. Collective bargain- is not anti-union. Union busting, ac- copal Church in New Orleans. ing has been abetted by Pope John cording to The Economist, has become reuse In the highlight event, Tutu, an out- Paul's pro-union statements and his a big business and a new breed of con- for spoken foe of apartheid, was billed on public support of Solidarity — the Pol- sultants is preying on the labor scene, the same platform with George Bush, ish workers' union. specializing in creating the "union free

required Vice President of an administration But on the whole, published writings environment," and briefing supervi- which has consistently resisted effec- in either denomination, offering down sors on how to wage an anti-union tive opposition to the Botha regime. to earth answers to ethical questions campaign. The final indignity: Anyone who faced by management, are rare. In this When this happens, "warfare is met Permission wanted to hear the courageous Tutu regard, St. John's and other hospital with warfare" on the part of the union, speak at the Saenger Theater had to administrations might well consult a and "protracted campaigns lead to DFMS.

/ cross the picket line of a striking booklet entitled, Ethical Guidelines for strikes, anxiety, suffering, economic Stagehand Local #39 AFL-CIO, which a Religious Institution Confronted by a loss." could not bring management to the Union, by Ed Marciniak, president of "On the other hand, a determination Church bargaining table in a local dispute. the Institute of Urban Life at Loyola of on the part of administrators to ap- In July in Michigan, a state which Chicago. proach bargaining strongly, without has suffered deep wounds from plant He proposes several guidelines, cau-

Episcopal feeling that they must give in on every closings during Reagan's anti-labor tioning, among them: demand and without fixed ideas so that the

of regime, Convention goers will meet — The men or women who lead re- they refuse ever to budge — these at- the Committee for Interns and Resi- ligious institutions should re-examine titudes will breed reciprocal disposi- dents, leafletting for support of their their tendencies toward paternalism, tions on the part of those with whom Archives union in a longtime controversy at since, having inherited the model of they bargain." Episcopal-run St. John's Hospital in Perhaps most important, as Marcin-

2020. benevolent authority, many have never Far Rockaway, N.Y. (See story p. 10.) experienced any other style of leader- iak points out, stereotypes which ad- Unions, which provide a collective ship. Marciniak suggests the "mutual ministrators and union organizers voice to workers without power, are cherish about each other will have to

Copyright respect" model of labor management among the most democratic institu- relations as an experiment in partner- be re-assessed. "Some union leaders tions in U.S. society. But while Epis- ship. have indeed been unreasonable, but so copal and Roman Catholic Bishops in have managers of religious institu- this country have issued strong state- — Administrators should cease de- tions. Neither has a monopoly on vir- ments about the rights of workers to ceiving themselves that some labor tue." His Ethical Guidelines for a Reli- organize, there is a long gap between practices can be morally justified be- gious Institution Confronted by a those edicts and putting them into cause they are legally permitted; that Union can be ordered for $1.50 from practice. Still, unions represent tens of which is legally tolerable may be ethi- the National Center for the Laity, 1 E. thousands of workers employed by cally intolerable. Superior St. #311, Chicago, IL 60611.

June 1988 From preachment to people power by John H. Burt

mi hy don't you practice what plague of gang wars among unem- bishops' challenge. Under the leader- you preach?" That question often flung ployed youth, the disappearance of ade- ship of their diocesan, The Rt. Rev. H. at Christians is old and shopworn. But quate health care for over 35 million of Coleman McGehee, they have fash- it still makes its point. Sometimes it is our people, an out-of-control drug epi- ioned a plan which, if enacted, would publication. couched in tones of irony, even cyni- demic, the virtual disappearance of de- press dioceses all across America to put cent housing for low income people — and cism; sometimes as a word of judg- into practice the implications of their ment, more often as a challenge to reli- these are but some of the varied mani- preachments. It proposes a program reuse gious credibility and Gospel faithful- festations of a basic social epidemic which enables and equips the church to for ness. which grips our society. stand with the poor in local situations When Episcopalians gather at Gen- In addition to a plethora of sermons and to join with them in fashioning new eral Convention in Detroit this July, about this matter from parish pulpits, instruments by which they can work at required they will be reflecting together on what no less than 17 major church bodies in alleviating their own degradation. it means to act as becomes the church the United States have issued formal "The Michigan plan," as this action of Jesus Christ. Will the question about statements on economic justice. Best proposal is popularly called, would es- Permission preaching or practicing haunt the con- known, perhaps, is the Roman Catholic tablish by approval of General Conven- science of every voting deputy and bishops' 188-page study, three years in tion "a ministry of community invest-

DFMS. bishop there? Let us hope so — espe- the making, entitled Economic Justice ment and economic justice directed to / cially at this poignant time when the for All. Last September, some 80 bish- community-controlled economic devel- reality of economic injustice at home ops of the Episcopal Church put then- opment programs of the disadvantaged, Church and abroad rears its ugly head. signatures to a statement, also three with a special focus on land trusts, Injustice is the daily lot of millions of years in the drafting, entitled Economic housing cooperatives, worker-owned Americans in our inner cities, on family Justice and the Christian Conscience. businesses and community develop- Episcopal farms and outside factory gates — that Authored by the Urban Bishops Coali- ment credit unions." In brief they are the is hardly news any more. Even political tion, it is briefer in text (20 pages) than cooperative self-help programs. of conservatives admit it. Moreover, the the Catholic Bishops' piece, and ur- The vehicle through which such a gap between rich and poor, the prosper- gently calls for movement by the ministry would be carried out is the lo-

Archives ous and the disadvantaged, is alarm- church from moral reflections about the cal diocese together with appropriate ingly wide and has been widening daily crisis to a program of action that will regional and local church clusters

2020. for at least eight years. The public pic- address it. In commending the UBC within it. Involvement by the national ture of homeless persons sleeping on document to Episcopalians throughout Episcopal Church would consist of of- our streets, the increasing number of the nation, the House of Bishops, meet- fering expertise on "how to do it" when Copyright soup kitchens in church basements, the ing in Chicago last September, chal- requested, providing matching grant continuing announcements of major lenged the various dioceses to come to monies for planning and local staff plant closings, the demise of the family General Convention with proposals for when needed, and partnership in identi- farm, the pauperization of women, the action based on the implications of fying alternatives investment resources what the Urban Bishops had written. necessary to launch specific projects as This past spring a group of laypeople a supplement to those monies locally and clergy in the Diocese of Michigan, available. The Rt. Rev. John Harris Burt is retired Bishop of Ohio and a Board member of the who have been themselves immersed in The proposed enabling resolution at Episcopal Church Publishing Company. the urban and rural crisis, took up the Detroit urges the church at every level

THE WITNESS of making $4 million available annu- An important additional feature of ally for six years on behalf of economic the Michigan plan is its advocacy com- A new National Episcopal empowerment of the poor. This money ponent. The church at every level will Fund for Community Invest- would come presumably from gifts, be urged to work with other bodies, ment and Economic Justice foundations, alternative investment both ecumenical and interfaith, for the would be established with a portfolios, and special appeals (perhaps establishment of "public policies at goal of making $4 million through such instruments as the Presid- municipal, state and federal levels ing Bishop's Fund). About 10% of this available annually for six which will be supporting of community amount would be earmarked as "match- economic development. years on behalf of economic ing grants for local diocesan adminis- Realistically speaking, however, the empowerment of the poor, if trative costs of the program. enormous national debt facing Con- the Michigan proposal goes into effect. publication. and reuse "to utilize, where possible, its build- for ings, properties, personnel, financial re- sources and moral power in support of

required this ministry." To carry this out, each diocese will be challenged to appoint its own Commission on Community In- vestment and Economic Justice in order Permission to oversee the implementation of such a ministry. DFMS.

/ The Executive Council of the Episco- pal Church, would then, in turn, back up these local efforts by creating from Church among the staff at the Episcopal Church Center in New York, a "work- ing group" on community investment Episcopal and economic justice charged with the the

of task of coordinating such program units as the offices of National Mission in Church and Society, Education for Mis- Archives sion and Ministry and Stewardship De- velopment. This working group would 2020. also be expected to engage "in close collaboration with dioceses to facilitate training, support and guidance for local Copyright efforts." A request is now pending to the church's Standing Commission on Program and Budget for an annual item of $250,000 to fund the national aspect of the plan. If adopted, the Michigan proposal Drawn by would also establish a new National Franklin Booth Episcopal Fund for Community Invest- ment and Economic Justice with a goal Graphic from 1931 WITNESS

June 1988 How poverty mars U.S. society

• Estimates of poverty extant in American Indians have the fare benefits and insufficient America run from 32.4 to 33.1 highest infant mortality, the support services such as child million — nearly one out of shortest life span, the greatest care for those able and willing seven people. They include suicide and alcoholism rate and to work. both old and young. a tuberculosis rate seven times the national average. Caught in • The United States today may • From 1979 to 1985, poverty a special web of legal restric- be the first society in history rose in America by 4.3 million. tions and constitutional limita- where children are worse off tions, in many ways the "first than adults, according to Sen. • Poverty has become increas- Americans" have become the Daniel Patrick Mcynihan. Statis- ingly racial in character. The "last Americans." tics show that 22% of all chil- 31.9% poverty rate for Black dren under the age of six were

publication. people is the same as it was • Fifteen of the largest U.S. cit- living in poverty last year. For back in 1979. For Hispanic ies reported an aggregate of Black children under six the and people it has grown from 21.8% 292,000 homeless people last poverty rate was 45.6% and for to 29% in the same period. year. In the nation they may Hispanic children under six it reuse White Americans, among whom number 2 to 3 million. was 40.7%. For White children for incomes are almost twice that the figure was 17%. Even so, of Black people, have accumu- • Today, two out of three poor poor Whites outnumber poor lated 10 times as much wealth. adults in the United States are Blacks two to one. required women. Their vulnerability to • For Native Americans the situ- poverty is deepened by divorce - Stats from Economic Justice ation is even more scandalous. and separation, inadequate wel- and the Christian Conscience. Permission DFMS.

/ gress together with the fragile financial is a need to establish alternatives to the ment, just might succeed in fashioning nature of most state and local govern- present macro-economic arrangements new processes for economic justice — ments makes any hope of significant that dominate our society, alternatives particularly if our society moves to re- Church government aid for these types of pro- of a practical sort in the neighborhood furbish our human value priorities." grams problematic. Moreover, recent and the workplace, and at community, We have now had two decades of ex- state and regional levels. perimentation with cooperatives, com-

Episcopal political history demonstrates that eco- nomic reforms based on ideals of eco- The Urban Bishops, in their paper, munity development corporations, the

of nomic justice have simply not altered argue that the only way truly to recon- worker-owned firms — the type of en- the underlying inequities highlighted by struct a culture of community is to be- terprises the Michigan plan hopes the the Urban Bishops' Coalition paper. gin in the here and now to build com- church will help the poor and disadvan- Archives Nor is it likely that a politics based munity-based economic and social in- taged to create. By trying to expand solely on a populist critique of the pros- stitutions. They point with a sense of this experience through a national 2020. perous and their institutions will bring hope to "exciting new developments" church program, Episcopalians, joining about much fundamental change. already under way here and there with others who share a similar passion, The deeper issue behind the Urban across the country where "religiously might make a real contribution to fash- Copyright Bishops' economic statement and the sensitive people along with others are ioning a new institutional vision for so- Michigan plan, therefore, is how soci- advocating the restructuring of eco- ciety. While taking action for economic ety can build up the experience, prac- nomic decision-making so that wealth justice by the Episcopal Church can tice and institutions of local commu- produced by the common efforts of the make little more than a minimal splash nity. The real need, biblically and prac- many will benefit the many and not just in the pond of enormous challenge, tically speaking, is to nurture and sus- the few." ever since the Supper in the Upper tain a consciousness of our mutual re- They even express some confidence Room it has been demonstrated that a sponsibility and dependence upon one "that American capitalism, subject as it small sacramental act can have a way another at the local level. In short, there is to direction by representative govern- of changing the world. QQ|

THE WITNESS 9 A Luta - JSfflS? by Barbara C. Harris

Much ado about everything

L/istening to the voices of gloom Take inclusive language, for in- and doom in the Episcopal Church, stance. A resolution of the 1985 Gen- one would think this branch of the An- eral Convention directed the Standing consideration because of the emotion- glican Communion was rapidly going Liturgical Commission to "prepare al- alism surrounding them. to hell in a handbasket. If I did not ternative inclusive language liturgies On this issue, and a few others, belong to the Episcopal Church in the for the regular services of the church, some are calling for the head of New- publication. United States of America, didn't know i.e. Morning and Evening Prayer and ark Bishop John Spong on a pike. and any better and believed all I hear from the Holy Eucharist." In response, the Moreover, the entire House of Bishops the conservative and traditionalist Commission's report to the 69th Gen- is being characterized as guilty by as- reuse wing of the church, I might be so in- eral Convention offers for the church's sociation if it does not a) call for his for clined. Unfortunately, there are some consideration, "Supplemental Liturgi- resignation or b) "throw the rascal who do belong, who should know bet- cal Texts" and I, for one, am willing to out." Folks should read the Diocese of required ter, but believe what they hear — or take them at their word that the texts Newark's report, which is available, hear what they believe — and are all are just that — supplemental. and see what it really says about "al- up in arms about the current state of Now the convention is free to ap- ternative lifestyles" before rushing to the church. prove or disapprove these texts, just as Permission condemn the bishop and his supporters As the 69th General Convention ap- previous conventions approved the by responding to scare headlines and proaches, there seems to be an inten- 1979 Prayer Book and the 1982 Hym- inflammatory phrases taken out of DFMS. / sive and concerted effort to get folk nal. The unfortunate use of the word context sufficiently aroused that they will ex- "alternative" in the 1985 resolution I find it interesting that homophobia

Church press a fair amount of righteous indig- has opened the way for the "Ah ha, we often gets expressed in such mean- nation on just about any and every told you so's" in the church to distort spirited ways, raising serious questions subject that might come before that the purpose of the Committee on Sup- as to what really underlies the deep-

Episcopal legislative body. One way to do that is plemental Liturgical Texts and to seated fear of and contempt for per-

the to talk about sex and/or money — two claim that the 1979 Prayer Book is sons of homosexual orientation. Much of things that seem guaranteed to get the only a "temporary liturgy in the proc- of it comes from closet gays (many of adrenaline flowing. ess of radical revision." Even if that whom are clergy) who, as a moxie gay The sad thing is that several issues were true, what's the beef? If the 1979 friend observes, are certainly entitled Archives which should be considered separately book is as bad as they claim, they to their closets but "should not be al- ought to be happy to have it revised.

2020. — if debated at all — are linked to- lowed to use them as snipers' nests." gether as immoral, schismatic and he- What really has them so riled up, I Space does not allow comment for retical, and some folk are already suspect, is that supplemental liturgical the much-unecessarily debated ques- materials flying around tend to push Copyright spoiling for a fight that doesn't need to tion of women in the episcopate ex- take place. Human sexuality, inclusive the 1928 Prayer Book even further into cept perhaps to restate one fact. The language and women in the episcopate obscurity. attempt to make it the icing on what is are somehow tied together into one Or how about human sexuality? The purported to be an already-baked he- ball of wax or at least sufficiently re- several resolutions concerning gays retical cake is to mislead folks and to lated in such a way that the forthcom- and lesbians already submitted to con- deny that the issue was settled by the ing Detroit convention is being made vention — some of which are reruns General Convention of 1976 which to sound more like a joint Playboy- — have set up such a hoot and holler approved the admission of women to Penthouse-Hustler magazine sympo- from the "read 'em and weep" troops all three orders of the ordained minis- sium than a church assembly. that their content will never get serious try. 'Nuff said. E3

June 1988 "In compliance with Article XXXIII of the collective bargain- Union-busting ing agreement between the Com- mittee of Interns and Residents and the Church Charity Founda- In September 1986, the housestaff — eluding, for seven years, St. John's it- tion of Long Island, please be ad- interns and residents — of St. John's self. vised that St. John's Episcopal Episcopal Hospital, Far Rockaway, At first glance, the church seems sup- Hospital, South Shore, will not N.Y., were told that the administration portive of labor unions in principle. extend its contractual relation- would no longer recognize their union, The Presiding Bishop has spoken out ship beyond the current expira- the Committee for Interns and Resi- strongly for workers' rights in South tion date of December 31,1986." dents (CIR). Africa, and the 1982 "Pastoral Message Keith F. Safian, Administrator CIR members were baffled, because from the Coalition of Urban Bishops" to their knowledge, their relations with said: publication. "It's really outrageous to all management had been amicable since We affirm the right and desirabil- and this to go on. Everybody is afraid St. John's housestaff joined the union ity of workers in the United States to speak out; even the Presiding in 1979. "One day the administrator to organize and form unions. .. It reuse Bishop. I thought religious people sent out a notice that we did not belong provides a route that avoids con- for were supposed to discuss issues of to the union anymore," said a CIR trol by one side to the rights of morality." Bill Ragan, former member, who asked to remain anony- the other. . .Therefore, we decry

required CIR organizer mous, fearing reprisal from the hospital the growing wave of anti-union- administration. "We didn't understand, ism mounting in the nation today "As President [of the Church because there had never been any kind which asks people to forget the Charity Foundation], I am Chair- of problem. But the administration has struggles which led to this form of Permission man of the Board of Managers. always been reluctant to give justifica- negotiation as a just way to settle This is entirely distinguished from tion for their actions." differences. We urge church DFMS.

/ the administration of the hospi- What makes this issue more compli- people and others not to judge tals. Any negotiations with unions cated than the usual labor-management this issue on the basis of a par- or other business or administra- dispute is that management, which ap- ticular case but rather on the ba- Church tion of the hospitals is handled by pears ultimately to be the Episcopal sis of the fundamental principles administration." The Rt. Rev. Church, refuses to deal with a union of involved. . .We reject any notion Robert C. Witcher, Bishop of I: that one class of people can be

Episcopal medical professionals that has been in Long Island existence since 1957, and has members trusted to hold the interest of an- the of in hospitals in New York, Washington, other class of people in higher "We should have a choice about D.C. and New Jersey. CIR was first or- priority than their own self-inter- who will represent us; it's a ques- ganized in the public hospitals of New est. To endorse such a notion is to Archives tion of principles." CIR member, York to enable interns and residents to invite the renewal of an aban- St. John's Episcopal Hospital fight for better pay and more reason- doned form of exploitation and to 2020. able working hours. At the time the regress to paternalism. "There are two sides to the union was founded, the average pay for But it is not clear that the Urban story." The Rev. Canon James a resident was $67 for a 130-hour week. Bishops' message is being heeded. On Copyright Wattley, Bishop's staff, Diocese CIR has also advocated better patient a diocesan and national level, the of Long Island care and hospital safety. Union mem- church is apparently unwilling to deal bers working in city-owned hospitals in with the matter. When CIR received "I was born for this, I came into New York have established a patient notice that the hospital administration the world for this: to bear witness care trust fund, where members donate was not going to renegotiate its con- to the truth; and all who are on money to buy hospital equipment when tract, the union made numerous at- the side of the truth listen to my the city budget runs short. The union tempts to talk with the administration, voice." "Truth?" said Pilate, has been recognized by many hospitals all unsuccessful. It then appealed to the "What is that?" John 18:37-38 in the New York metropolitan area, in- Rt. Rev. Robert C. Witcher, Bishop of

THE WITNESS 10 at 'St. Elsewhere' by Susan E. Pierce

the Diocese of Long Island and Presi- ics or the morality of the situation." ber of factors that made CIR at St. dent of the Church Charity Foundation Their attempts to negotiate thwarted John's more vulnerable to union-bust- (now called Episcopal Health Services). at every turn, CIR members became ing. The only interns and residents ac- Witcher replied in a letter: "The mat- more militant. They held rallies and tually on St. John's payroll are the 24 ters which you have presented to me wore union buttons to work. "But the in internal medicine. CIR members in have been presented to the Board of administration refused to let the union the Ob/Gyn, Surgical and Pediatric pro- Managers. It was fully discussed and representatives into the hospital to meet grams rotate in from different hospitals. left entirely in the hands of administra- with us. Security would take them out, Since they were not paid by St. John's, tion. I have no other comments on the so we had to sneak them in and hide they could have offered support if those publication. matter and have no intention of inter- them," said the CIR member. "We in internal medicine went out on strike,

and fering with administration any more would put up flyers around the hospital but could not have led the way. "The than you would want me to interfere and the administration would follow members in internal medicine voted to reuse with your practice of medicine." behind and remove them. Once or strike," said former organizer Bill Ra- for CIR had turned to Witcher because twice, we were handing out flyers at the gan, who left CIR this year, "but in the the union had no other recourse. Health door and they called the police and told end they didn't — they were scared of us to clear the entrance." required care workers' unions were not even le- being fired." Rumors spread that the gally recognized until 1974. At that The fact that an institution supported administration was considering mass time, the National Labor Relations Act, by the church seemed to be engaging in dismissals, and then St. John's placed which protects the right of employees classic union-busting deeply affronted ads in the newspapers for openings in Permission to engage in collective bargaining, was union members. "Many people felt its internal medicine program. extended to cover non-profits, which doubly upset that they were dealing Ragan pointed out that in the ex-

DFMS. includes the majority of hospitals. / with a church that was acting like a tremely competitive scramble of post- However, in 1976, the National Labor corporation — it was like fighting for medical school graduates, "it's hard to Relations Board (NLRB) ruled that in- your rights with Coca-Cola or IBM. We get residencies, but you have to do resi- Church terns and residents — medical school thought they'd be more humane," the dencies, it's part of the licensing re- graduates going through the final gruel- union member said. quirements. You have to jump through ing process of on-the-job training in a Increasingly frustrated, the union the hoops." Episcopal particular area — were exempt from took its battle outside the hospital. "We The timing of the administration's the

of the right to unionize because they were demonstrated in front of the bishop's announcement made the CIR members' considered students instead of regular house," he said. "He was outraged." predicament more acute, said Ragan. employees. But the interns and residents were "The training year runs from July

Archives "If the interns and residents had been angry and bewildered, too. The CIR through June. The announcement came covered by law, they could have filed a member said, 'The 24 of us in the in September, and the thought of being 2020. charge (protesting the hospital's action) internal medicine program were never fired in the middle of the year, having with the NLRB," said CIR organizer troublemakers. We hardly had time to to look for another place and doing a Bruce Elwell. "But they had no legal get enough sleep, let alone play poli- whole year over, $60,000 in debt, your Copyright remedy, so they tried a number of tics." career possibly ruined — it was intimi- things. They asked for a meeting with The "student" designation put interns dation." the Bishop of Long Island to discuss and residents in a tenuous situation: "I Another point of vulnerability for the matters and head off a mess. But the might be in training, but I work 100 union at St. John's was that nearly all Bishop refused to meet, or even send an hours a week, and I'm responsible for the interns and residents were, and still aide. He said, 'It doesn't have anything peoples' lives," he said, "but because are, graduates of foreign medical to do with me, the board hired the ad- we are considered students, we have a schools. ministration, it's all in their hands.' He borderline status." "There is a prejudice against foreign- wasn't interested in discussing the eth- This student status was one of a num- Continued on page 22

June 1988 11 Dinner Will Honor Four

T turned to the ministry and peacemaking. In 1970 he was chair of a X he Episcopal Church Publishing Company will present peace mission to South Vietnam, and in 1982 he was part of a delega- four awards for outstanding contributions to the social mis- tion to discuss nuclear disarmament with Soviet leaders in Moscow. sion of the church at a dinner July 5 during the General Recently he visited Nicaragua. Bishop Moore serves on the NAACP's Convention of the Episcopal Church in Detroit. Legal Defense Fund and chairs its Committee of 100. He is co-chair of the Interfaith Committee Against Racism in New York City, and chairs The traditional awards are presented in honor of three the Governor's Council on AIDS. His unflagging interest in the plight of noted Episcopalian social activists — William Scarlett, the cities and his concern for their survival is evident in his published Bishop of Missouri, 1930-1950; Vida Scudder, educator works, The Church Reclaims the City, and Take a Bishop Like Me. and social activist; and William B. Spofford, Sr., former Former Suffragan Bishop of Washington, he was given a leave of ab- publication. editor of THE WITNESS. sence from the diocese at the request of the Presiding Bishop to direct "Operation Connection," an interfaith coalition concerned with eco- and The Spofford Award this year will go to the Hon. Miguel nomic development integrating Black leadership and the White com- D'Escoto Brockmann, Foreign Minister of Nicaragua; the munity. He was also first to chair the Delta Ministry, the National reuse Scarlett Award will be shared by the Rt. Rev. Paul Moore, Council of Churcfies' ministry in Mississippi. for Jr., Bishop of New York and the Rt. Rev. Francisco Reus- Froylan, Bishop of Puerto Rico; and the Scudder Award • Scarlett Award (shared): The Rt. Rev. Francisco Reus-Froylan, Bishop of Puerto Rico, has spent much of his life as an advocate for required will be presented to Ms. Mattie Hopkins, Chicago educator and activist. self-determination of peoples, especially of his own people of Puerto The dinner is set for 7:45 p.m. at the Westin Hotel. Cock- Rico. During his long and varied career, he has served as pastor, educator, chaplain, chair of the Board of Trustees of St. Luke's Hospi- tails will precede at 6:45 p.m. Readers are invited to make tal, Ponce; General Convention deputy, member of the Executive Permission reservations for the ECPC dinner by returning the accompa- Council and of the Council of Advice, House of Bishops; president of nying coupon, according to the Rev. Barbara C. Harris, the Board of Episcopal Seminary of the Caribbean; secretary of the

DFMS. ECPC Executive Director. Entertainment will be provided Board of the Caribbean Center for Advanced Studies; Board member, / by Vinie Burrows, noted actress. Puerto Rican Migrants; chair of the Institute) Pastoral Hispano; mem- ber, Puerto Rican Institute for Civil Rights. Bishop Reus and his dio- Biodata of award winners, reflecting why they were cho- cese broke away from the U.S. Episcopal church so that the church Church sen, follow: might, from an autonomous position, speak with a prophetic voice to defend the island's ecology against corporate abuses such as • Spofford Award: The Hon. Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann, foreign stripmining; protest incidents such as the U.S. Navy's bombing of

Episcopal minister of Nicaragua, has played a key role alongside President Vieques for target practice, and in general, provide a voice for self-de- Daniel Ortega in implementing the Contadora accords and the termination. Bishop Reus was also a strong advocate for the four the Esquipulas II peace plan. D'Escoto was ordained a Maryknoll Mission- of Hispanic Grand Jury resistors (Maria Cueto et al, who supported inde- ary in 196I and continues as a member in good standing of that order. pendence for Puerto Rico). He has played an active role in the FSLN in his country and in 1977 was a member of the "Group of 12" intellectuals and professionals who Archives worked with the Sandinista front as the Revolution gained momentum. He became Foreign Minister in 1979. Under disciplinary suspension by

2020. the Vatican, he is not allowed to exercise his priestly facilities because ECPC Awards Dinner Reservation he refused to leave his governmental position. In prophetic witness, D'Escoto participated in a water-only fast for peace in 1985, raising the Please reserve _places at $25 per person (tables discussion of U.S.-Nicaraguan relations to a new theological level. He of 10 for $250) for me/us at the ECPC Awards Banquet Copyright fasted for 30 days before an attending physician warned that his al- during General Convention in Detroit. Enclosed is a check in ready damaged heart would not take further strain. The following year, the amount of $ . D'Escoto led his people in a cross country Lenten Way of the Cross procession for peace. He was founder and President of the National Name Institute for Popular Action and Social Research (INAP) in Santiago, Chile; and once worked under contract for the Mexican and Brazilian Address Church in poor neighborhoods. City/State Zip • Scarlett Award (shared): The Rt. Rev. Paul Moore, Jr., Bishop of Make check payable to Episcopal Church Publishing Co. and New York — author, advocate for racial justice and women's rights — mail to ECPC, Box 359, Ambler PA 19002. Thank you! left the U.S. Marine Corps in 1945 as a highly decorated captain and

12 THE WITNESS publication. and reuse for required Permission

THE HON. MIGUEL D'ESCOTO, Foreign Minister of Nicaragua, during his 30- DFMS.

/ day fast for peace in 1985. THE RT. REV. FRANCISCO REUS-FROYLAN Church Episcopal the of

* Scudder Award: Ms. Mattie Hopkins, Archives noted educator, church and community activ- ist, currently chairs the Vocational/Technical

2020. Committee of the Chicago Board of Educa- tion, and is a member of its Legislative and Employee Relations committee as well. She also chaired the Teachers' Division of Jesse Copyright Jackson's Operation PUSH, and is former president of Women Working Together, Inc., which provides programs for prevention of early unplanned pregnancies. Her numerous national and local offices in the Episcopal Church include national vice president, Union of Black Episcopalians; national Board mem- ber, Episcopal Urban Caucus; member of the Board of Trustees, Diocese of Chicago; member of the Advisory Committee, Urban Bishops. MS. MATTIE HOPKINS THE RT. REV. PAUL MOORE, JR.

June 1988 13 The Episcopal Church as voyeur by Louie Crew

Lomosexual persons are Children With good reason, then, we have show hosts. of God who have a full and equal claim awaited with trepidation these various The Commission gave the report a with all other persons upon the love, reports from the Commission through- trial run when the House of Bishops acceptance and pastoral concern of the out the years. met in St. Charles, 111., last September. church," proclaimed the General Con- You will study marriage, General I sat in the back of the room among the vention of the Episcopal Church in Convention said to the church in 1982, bishops' wives. One woman whispered publication. 1976.1 rejoiced until a friend reminded and it asked each diocese to establish a to another as they sat knitting, "I never and me that when India forbade people to special commission on the subject. thought I'd live to see the day! The call others "the untouchables," the With communicants from broken House of Bishops discussing orgasms, reuse touchables merely called them "Chil- homes sitting in almost every othet condoms, oral sex and homosexuals! for dren of God." pew, how could dioceses oppose so ra- What's the church coming to?" A dozen years after the Episcopal tional an injunction? However, most In its final draft, the Commission required Church affirmed us as Children of God, dioceses balked, reported the Commis- admitted: "The primary focus for the lesbians and gay males are still too un- sion on Human Affairs and Health in Commission on Human Affairs and touchable to be members of the Human the Blue Book sent to all delegates to Health has been on various issues of the 1988 General Convention in De- Permission Affairs and Health Commission human sexuality in the past Trien- charged to address matters of our spiri- troit. nium." Other human affairs previously tual life and death. The Commission tried to find out high on its agenda, have taken a back DFMS. / If lesbians and gay males represent how dioceses responded to the 1982 seat. approximately one out of 10 Episcopa- Resolution, but only 54 of the 120 dio- For example, the Commission de-

Church lians — projections based on Kinsey ceses (45%) answered. Only 24 dio- voted only 8% of its long report to ra- statistics which Commissioners re- ceses reported that they did set up such cism, just under the amount of space peated to the horror of several members commissions. that it allotted to "bioethical issues."

Episcopal of the House of Bishops last September Undaunted by this nonresponse, the The Commission did note with favor,

the — that means we should have had at Commission petitioned General Con- however, that recently the entire staff of least one lesbian or gay member repre- vention to resolve that women consid- of the national Episcopal Church Cen- sented on the Commission charged with ering abortions should consult members ter took a full day off to discuss institu- studying us. of the church community. Statistics tional racism. Perhaps in its 1991 re- Archives It also means that lesbians and gay show that approximately one out of port, the Commission can document three pregnant women now chooses to how that discussion trickled down to

2020. males footed at least $1,077.92 of the $10,779.23 that the Commission spent abort — does anyone seriously believe feed the hungry and meet other mate- to talk about us during this triennium, many of them will consult their parish rial needs of the poor in the ghettos.

Copyright and will foot $4,514 of the $45,140 priests, or even should? How many However, it's important to note the which the Commission has requested priests have the empathy required to Commission itself did not choose sex as for the next triennium. counsel these women? And what kind its main topic. Instead the actions of 12 of advice do the Commissioners ask conservative bishops chose it for them. Louie Crew, founder of Integrity and frequent Christians to give? "They are to explore After the last General Convention, the contributor to THE WITNESS, has authored . . . alternative courses of action." Con- 12 asked the House of Bishops to af- more than 200 published articles. He returned sidering that the church makes such firm heterosexual monogamy as the to the United States recently from Beijing, nebulous statements, perhaps it is not People's Republic of China, where he taught standard of behavior for all Christians. English at the university level, and is currently an accident that most Christians are The House dropped that hot item on the seeking employment in academe. more likely to heed the advice of talk- plate of the Commission.

14 THE WITNESS In all fairness, the Commission never sons to the fullest extent of the law." The major issue for lesbians and gay claimed to have had fun with the issue. That sounds like hypocrisy if the males is not sex, but justice. It takes How much better if they had! Instead, church does not first set its own house only an ounce of imagination to fathom they reported the "harsh burdens upon in order. our sexual experience; it takes compas- us" when they realized "that the king- The Commission does not ask hetero- sion to understand our spiritual experi- dom of God has not fully come, that sexual persons to reciprocate with the ence. For compassion, the Commission God does not reign completely in the intimate candor it expects of us. Tell us substitutes prurience. world, or in our lives." This grim tone, why almost half of all hetero couples, "Practice monogamy," the Commis- sustained throughout the report, stifled even with all the support denied us, get sion shouts: not just snickers, but joy and celebra- divorced. Let hetero parents speak The Commission is uniformly tion as well. freely about the threats to their own agreed that life-long monogamous The diversity of the Commission identity if they even imagine parenting marriage is the normative or ideal members might seem, at a glance, to a gay son or a lesbian. context for intimate sexual expres- reflect the broad range of views the The Commission asks the church to sion between Christians! publication. church will have to accommodate if it eavesdrop on lesbians and gay males, The Commissioners seem so caught and plans to choose its moral perspectives not as a prelude to embrace, but as a up with their exclamation point that by consensus. For example, two conser- way to make a future pronouncement. they fail to notice that "monogamous reuse vative seminary professors, the Rev. And to what does the Commission ask marriage" is a tedious tautology. The for Robert Cooper and the Rev. David A. the eavesdroppers to attend most Commission "is not ready to take a po- Scott, offset the alleged "liberality" of closely? "Be alert to the genesis of sition on the blessing of same-sex required the episcopal members — Bishops homosexuality." couples." Why? Not because such George Hunt (Rhode Island), John Imagine the uproar if gay males and blessings are wrong or right, but be- Spong (Newark), and William Swing lesbians said, "Listen closely when cause "we do not think that homosexual Episcopalians need or deserve another Permission (California). Other Commissioners, lay heteros talk about how they got that and clergy, reflected similar extremes way!" rejection at this moment." in pews and pulpits. DFMS. / But should the church really discover morality by consensus? And does the

Church 12-member Commission really repre- sent the Christians whose lives their resolutions propose to affect?

Episcopal The heterosexual-dominated Com-

the mission tells the church to start listen- of ing to lesbians and gay males, but be- ware. If gay bishops speak, they will be defrocked. The church has already fired Archives several gay priests who have spoken

2020. out. It has excoriated and shunned many gay lay persons. Some dioceses deny us places to meet for worship. At

Copyright most parishes it's easier to gossip about Act justly, us than to talk with us. The Commission does not include ove tenderui, these anti-gay church folk when it de- and walk humblt) with our Qod plores gay bashing or asks General Convention to decry "the increase of violence against homosexual persons" and to call on "law enforcement offi- cials across the land to be sensitive to this peril and to prosecute guilty per-

June 1988 Lesbians and gay males are not gay males and lesbians, none of whom ance, this is for the best. wimps. The church will not crush us if use the phrase "homosexual persons" to "No matter how careful we might it documents its unlove one more time. name themselves. In all liberation have been in choosing the speakers?" Why preempt debate? Give to those movements, each group asserts the This contradicts the advice the Com- who repent a chance to support us pub- right to do its own naming. missioners liberally give to others: licly. It will surprise no one that the Com- We believe the church should Gay males and lesbians are integral missioners gave the 12 conservative open itself to listen to its homosex- to the body of Christ. God has already bishops the assurance they asked for: ual members — as many as wish accepted us. Our movement is not The Commission affirms marriage to be heard and whatever their about the church accepting us, but as the standard, the norm, the pri- behavioral patterns may be — to about our accepting God's love, always mary relationship in which the gift allow our viewpoints to be chal- indiscriminate, always extending to of human sexuality is to be shared. lenged in honest dialogue with those whom the church wants to cast There was no debate among us on those Episcopal clergy and laity out. this issue. who are willing to talk to us about publication. Heterosexual persons will not radi- Conservatives will note that Commis- it. and cally alter gay relationships when they sioners fudge with the word primary. And here is another place where the bless our unions, but they might alter Having given the conservatives what Commission talks out of both sides of reuse themselves: They will rid themselves of they wanted, the Commissioners tried its mouth. At first it states: for the idolatry of requiring others to live to save liberals' faces and pretend to We expect and encourage this de- in their own image. take seriously several secondary rela- bate to go on within the church required In its obsession with sex, the Com- tionships in which the gift of human and once again we plead with mission ignores several ways gays link sexuality is shared. At one point the church leaders to create an envi- with other issues in the report. For ex- Commissioners even asked gay people ronment in our common life in which this debate can proceed

Permission ample, regarding racism, the Commis- to respect the "sacredness of sex," but, sion might have asked, "With your ex- of course, only after they have refused with integrity and rationality. perience in dealing with the epidemic, to bless any same-sex relationships. Yet in the very next sentence, the DFMS. / can you teach us how to address the In many places the Commissioners most contorted in the entire report, the major group of Episcopalians affected show pride in themselves for opening Commission backtracks: [We] recognize that the General Church with AIDS, namely our African sisters up discussion, but that is precisely what and brothers?" they have not done. It is evil for them Convention resolution still opera- The Commission might have ad- to portray their discussions about gay tive in the church affirms the his- toric condemnation by the church Episcopal dressed wealthy, closeted Episcopali- people as an open debate, when there of homosexual behavior. We do the ans, "Must you always gentrify neigh- are no gay people on the Commission. of borhoods? We can show you how to Early in February this year, after the not believe that more resolutions will add anything positive to the use your wealth to reconcile them." Commission had completed its report, debate. Gays have bought miles of organ Bishop Hunt, Commission Chair, wrote Archives pipe and tons of stained glass, often be- to the Commissioners that the Rev. Let me translate it into clearer English, since this passage is the crux of their

2020. cause the church has made us feel David Collins, President of the House guilty. If the church gives us a vision of Deputies, and the Most Rev. Ed- report: that God loves us as God loves the poor mond L. Browning, Presiding Bishop: Historically the church has con-

Copyright and other oppressed peoples, we will . . . have decided against doing demned homosexual behavior. give motivated by love. the Forum [at General conven- General Convention still does. By this point, someone familiar with tion], so we have been relieved of Nothing we resolve can change the Commission's report has recog- that responsibility. I have mixed that. nized that I have willfully misrepre- feelings about that. It could have For a welcome, the Commission sub- sented one major part of it In no place been a good educational opportu- stitutes pornography. For hospitality, do the Commissioners ever mention nity, but also had the potential for the Commission substitutes patroniza- lesbians and gay males — instead, they further polarization — no matter tion. In doing so, it has failed to pro- pride themselves on calling us "homo- how careful we might have been vide the spiritual leadership that sexual persons." I know hundreds of in choosing the speakers. On bal- churchpeople need. H2

16 THE WITNESS Short Takes

Inspires 'crayon brigade' Battle against bases Suzanne Nagel, a member of Trinity The battle against U.S. foreign bases is Episcopal Church, New York, has initi- gaining steam. Spain has evicted 79 ated a "crayon brigade" among children U.S. F-16 fighter bombers from Torre- in the United States to produce thou- jon air base. Greece is taking a tougher sands of "birthday" cards for children in stand in negotiations over U.S. bases Russian Orthodox church communities there. Portugal is threatening to ban celebrating that church's 1,000th anni- U.S. warplanes from Lajes air base un- versary. less the United States restores eco- Pilgrims who will travel to the USSR nomic aid to former levels. And Turkey, under National Council of Churches also annoyed over cuts in aid, has re-

publication. auspices this year will carry these spe- fused to ratify a 1987 accord on contin- cial greetings from thousands of Ameri- ued U.S. access to six bases. and can children nationwide, who will make Also, leases on the U.S. Clark and them during their Sunday school Subic bases in the Philippines expire in reuse classes. In most of the cards, the chil- 1991. Sentiment against renewing runs for dren include their names and addreses strong in the Philippines, and the and ask to be written to. country's new constitution contains an "We are grateful to Ms. Nagel for a ambiguous yet important nuclear-free required creative idea which has caught the clause. With 15,000 U.S. troops, imagination of many church members, Next shot at bishop 12,000 civilian personnel and the larg- and we will be glad to present the The Rev. Anne Wilson Robbins, above, est military ship repair facility outside cards at churches we visit as an ex- rector of St. David's Church, Vandalia, the United States, Subic and Clark rep-

Permission pression of our care for one another," Ohio, was one of four nominees vieing resent an enormous U.S. investment. Kathy Todd, NCC Travel Seminar coor- to become bishop coadjutor of the Dio- The American Friends Service Com- dinator, said. cese of Iowa as THE WITNESS went mittee believes the U.S. peace move- DFMS.

/ NCC News, 4/4/88 to press. Robbins follows in the foot- ment should stand with those in other steps of the Rev. Helen Havens, who countries who oppose U.S. bases on was one of five nominees considered their soil. Church Who's funding whom? for bishop coadjutor in the Diocese of Nuclear Times Doug Henwood of the Left Business Michigan May 7. Havens withdrew her May-June '88 Observer looked at the Federal Elec- name after the second round of ballot- tion Commission files as of 2/29/88 to ing. The Rev. R. Stewart Wood, Jr., Episcopal find: was named Bishop Coleman Blaming women priests the Michael Dukakis: Refuses PAC McGehee's sucessor on the fifth ballot. It is probably closer to the truth to say of money and recently denounced buyout The Iowa election is scheduled May that the Episcopalian decision to ordain artists and other speculators, but re- 14. Robbins said that campaigning for women provided an opportunity rather ceives big money from realtors and bishop was "a marvelous, energizing than a motive for (some clergy) shifting Archives Wall Streeters — including buyout art- experience. I would walk into a room of allegiance to the Catholic church. It ist Henry Kravis (who hedges his bet some 350 people, and that included was the Episcopalians who "stayed be- 2020. by serving as Bush's New York finance busloads of some who had traveled hind" who .. . insisted that this was the chair). Many donations also come from two hours and faced two more going main reason why some of their priests Greek-Americans. home — and I saw the hope in moved to Rome. The story is quite different when told

Copyright Jesse Jackson: Labor PACs and people's eyes that a woman had been various individuals from Burger King nominated, and their expectations for by the ex-Episcopalian clergy . . . franchisees to ministers, teachers and an inclusive church. Oh, there were Ample research evidence points to the local officials. some who obviously would have a hard fact that these men were already on George Bush: Over 90% of Fortune time if I were elected, but others burst the road to Rome. Their theological 500 Chief Executive Officers want a into tears when they saw the incarna- and devotional life, as well as their litur- Republican victory in 1988. PAC do- tion of that possibility. gical and sacramental practices, were nors include ARCO, AT&T, BankAmer- "I had a sense of moving from a feel- already in conformity with Catholicism. They had no difficulty in accepting the ica, Citicorp, Disney, J.P. Stevens, ing of isolation to a real reaching out of primacy of the Pope. Monsanto, Rockwell. hands and hearts. In my conversations FAIR newsletter Extra with Helen Havens, she said she felt Joseph H. Fichter, S.J. March/April '88 the same warmth," Robbins said. Church, Winter '87

June 1988 17 General Convention commentary: Outcasts and 'incasts' at Detroit by Mary Lou Suhor

"/ believe that the time has come will not be won easily. Neither do lob- attached (See lead story.) Tours, run- for the Episcopal Church to lay byists believe that that should be the ning from 7 to 10 a.m. July 1 through 7, aside the superficial and oftimes desired course. "I would hate to see the will offer fruit juice, coffee and donuts. illusionary differences that we church at ease in Zion," said the Rev. An afternoon tour is set from 1 to 4 experience and in response to the Anne Garrison, who has been working p.m. July 5 and 7, and the night tour publication. summons of our One Lord to rec- in the Diocese of Michigan on a docu- July 6 from 7 to 10 p.m. should prove and ognize and call forth one ment in celebration of gay and lesbian especially revealing. THE WITNESS another's gifts, recognizing their contributions to the church. "These are recommends these eyeopeners as a con- reuse beauty without envy or anxiety." heady times when there are genuine vention "must." for — Edmond L. Browning cutting edges to bloody yourself on." In the convention debates, human Presiding Bishop Of all groups in The Consultation, sexuality, women in the episcopacy and

required the coalition which will be advancing a inclusive language are topics most progressive platform at General Con- likely to grab mass media headlines. Inclusiveness — the desire of the Pre- vention, perhaps those who feel most But deputies will also be grappling with siding Bishop of the Episcopal Church marginalized are members of Integrity. international justice-seeking resolutions Permission that there be no outcasts — will be a They have been trying unsuccessfully on South Africa, Palestine, Central goal both tested and challenged when to meet with Browning to address gay America, Northern Ireland, and self- DFMS.

/ 900 deputies and 200 bishops assemble and lesbian concerns and to protest determination for the church in the at General Convention July 1-11 in De- being "studied" by a church commis- Philippines, among the hundreds of troit. sion on which they were not repre- resolutions to be considered. Church At the final rap of the gavel, the sented. (See "Episcopal church as vo- For example, the Episcopal Peace burning question may well be, who is yeur" this issue.) Fellowship is backing the Peace "in" and who is "out"? Browning has Detroit itself — site of the conven- Commission's request for $1.5 million Episcopal frequently voiced the plea that there be tion — will provide an atmosphere in for healing in Central America; is ask- the

of no outcasts. But, progressive groups are which deputies can ponder the larger ing that convention adopt the Anglican saying, no outcasts means no "incasts" questions: "Where in our churches are Consultative Consultation resolution on as well, and they will witness at Gen- the outcasts of society? Those who Palestinian rights, and the recent Ex- Archives eral Convention to right imbalances walk the streets? The despised? The ecutive Council resolution on justice and work toward wholeness. truly down and out?" as one Michigan and sanctions in South Africa. 2020. To his credit, Browning has provided rector put it And the Union of Black Episcopali- an ambience in which dialog can take For those willing to leave their com- ans (UBE) will be exposing issues place. It is difficult to imagine a discus- fortable hotels or posh restaurants and around domestic and global racism, Copyright sion such as the Diocese of Newark's hit the streets, the host diocese has ar- monitoring the resolution for a new supporting those "who minister to per- ranged a bus tour of depressed areas Commission on Racism, and tracking sons living out alternative patterns of where the church is at work, creating the shrinking budget for Black Col- sexuality and family life" ever advanc- hope in the midst of despair. The tour leges. ing past the arched eyebrows of the pre- will be offered in conjunction with a Recent meetings of The Consultation vious administration — much less ter- proposal the Diocese of Michigan has revealed that members were struggling minating in a diocesan resolution to initiated which asks the church to with a progressive agenda which Convention. undertake concrete measures for eco- showed that all forms of discrimination But the struggle for inclusiveness nomic justice, with a formidable budget feed each other. "When we deal with

18 THE WITNESS racism or sexism only and not with the General Convention could be more of a cism is wrong. We do not yet have others we are just kidding ourselves," celebration. In a recent study of church a collective awareness that sex- said Carol Cole Flanagan, president of dioceses, 66% of the women and 60% ism is equally wrong — despite the Episcopal Women's Caucus (EWC). of the men supported women in the the statement of the House of Strategically, there is concern that is- episcopate. Nominees Helen Havens Bishops Pastoral Letter 15 years sues such as human sexuality, women and Anne Robbins reported "extraordi- ago, from the Louisville Conven- bishops and inclusive language will be nary" receptions recently as they cam- tion, that 'the growing recogni- played off against each other, and in paigned for bishop in the Dioceses of tion of discrimination against trade-off voting, be defeated. Michigan and Iowa, respectively. women in the culture is very simi- "These issues relate to all of us," "Emotionally, it would be a big lar to our recognition of racism, commented Edgar Byham, Integrity's plus," said EWC's Flanagan. "And and bears many of the same di- president, "and we were especially ap- many issues being argued now — ecu- mensions of sin.' Wherever preciative of the support of the menical relations, attitudes of the An- women remain excluded from any Women's Caucus last convention when glican Communion, constitution and level of ordained ministry, the publication. it fought for the inclusion of 'sexual canons — all would be settled if Gen- church sends a message that and orientation' in the Civil Rights canon, eral Convention ratified a woman women are inferior to men; con- which will be around again this year. It bishop. But even if a woman is elected, versely, where ordained women reuse would have been easier for them to get her isolation in the House of Bishops are affirmed, the church affirms for it passed without that phrasing." will have to be dealt with. She will the worth and ministries of all The Women's Caucus will be closely need an active support system." women. required watching resolutions about parity for Deborah Harmon Hines of UBE Further, the CFPWC points out that women in the church and discussions made gloomy predictions highlighting a the church is comprised of more than about women in the episcopate. It is problem which liberals of the church 50% women, while the representation also concerned about what "accommo- must deal with: of women on committees, commissions Permission dations" might be made, such as the "As women and gays gain accep- and church agencies, with few excep- conscience clause which was offered to tance, there will be fewer Black priests tions, is well below 50%. And 1987 fig- DFMS.

/ those opposing women's ordination. and fewer Blacks in leadership posi- ures from a study of more than 90 dio- One can imagine Roman Catholic femi- tions. The first woman bishop will not ceses show a median of 21% women in nists in the wings cheering their Epis- be a Black woman. Of the total number diocesan leadership positions. At the Church copalian sisters on, and consoling the of women who are ordained, only 21 Episcopal Church Center, barely one dissidents, "Have we got a Pope for are Black priests and five from other third of the professional positions (33 you!" Episcopal minorities. And minority enrollment in of 93) were filled by women at the end seminaries is down," she said. of 1987.

the Speaking of the Pope — the recent of election of the Rev. David Schofield as The Committee for the Full Partici- "To maintain the vitality of the bishop of the 17,000 member Diocese pation of Women in the Church church, it is essential that its leadership of San Joaquin, will provide a stormy (CFPWC) voices strong feelings about draw upon and reflect the rich diversity Archives tableau. Since 1984, Schofield has been sexism in its report to General Conven- of gifts and conditions of its members a member of the Monks of Mt. Tabor, tion: — sex, race, age and all the other fac- 2020. part of the Eastern Orthodox Church, Sexism is like racism, pervasive tors which distinguish groups within the "after he had withdrawn from an in- in our society. The church is whole. Such a model of inclusive repre- creasingly liberal Episcopal order," ac- somewhat more sensitive about sentation within the leadership builds Copyright cording to the National Catholic Re- racism than about sexism. If some an atmosphere which nurtures full par- porter. The Byzantine Catholic order to dioceses refused to ordain Black ticipation at every level," the CFPWC which he belongs is in union with people or to recognize the minis- report says. Rome. Legislative initiatives are al- tries of Black priests ordained The CFPWC found in the church, as ready underway, citing thorny ques- elsewhere, or threatened schism if in the secular world, widespread sup- tions of authority and obedience. a Black person were consecrated port for equal opportunity but little sup- Should the Dioceses of Iowa, South- bishop, few Anglicans would con- port for affirmative action. It offers a ern Ohio, Pennsylvania, or New York sider their position defensible, resolution which calls for achieving "a elect a woman bishop before Lambeth, because we understand that ra- balance of women and men appointed

June 1988 19 to all interim bodies, committees, com- member of the Commission. announced. missions, boards and agencies of the In other actions regarding inclusive Considering the myriad agendas to be church, so that the demographics of the language, the convention itself will be advanced at General Convention, depu- worshiping community will be re- asked to adopt the first reading of nine ties may be tempted to ask, "Of these flected in those appointed bodies," and constitutional amendments that delete brittle bits, who can beget a body?" To that "dioceses and congregations be re- the masculine pronoun "he" and "his" be sure, there is a long road ahead be- quested to work toward a similar bal- when referring to bishops and priests, fore "there is no Jew or Greek, male or ance of women and men appointed to and to change the word "clergymen" to female, slave or free." But Detroit will local and diocesan church bodies." "members of the clergy." provide another opportunity for the The report of the Standing Liturgical Convention will also be asked to sup- Episcopal Church to strive toward that Commission on inclusive language, port translation of the canons into wholeness. E£3 which provides liturgical texts seeking Spanish and to provide that the General a more balanced imagery in descrip- Ordination Exam be administered "in a tions of God, is also controversial. candidate's language of preference." Amanecer in English publication. The SLC will present a booklet offer- The Consultation will present its leg- The English edition of Amanecer, (The and ing for exploratory use, inclusive lan- islative platform under eight topic Dawn) publication of the ecumenical guage texts which are not replacements headings: Human rights, racism, eco- Antonio Valdivieso Center in Nicara- reuse gua, will be launched at an inaugural

for for Prayer Book liturgies and office but nomic justice, militarism, justice and additions to them, it explained. peace, environment, liturgy, and strate- event at New York's Episcopal Church "The commission took a skeleton of gies for mission. Copies will be avail- of the Holy Rood at 7:30 p.m. June 17 required texts and put on new flesh, adding other able at the Exhibit Hall, where its with the Rev. Enrique Irizarry as host. images of God. It was not a pencil and member groups will display unity in a Amanecer combines information, eraser job; rather it was designed to cluster of booths, centrally located. analysis, documents, testimonies and

Permission make worship more acceptable and ac- Convention-goers are invited to an cultural pieces in a bi-monthly edition. cessible on many different levels for Open Meeting of The Consultation, Its English edition will be produced people," said the Rev. Sarah Motley, a July 2 from 12:30 to 2 p.m., site to be under the auspices of the New York DFMS. / CIRCUS, an ecumenical center for so- Percentage of Women in Diocesan Roles cial justice, with Rigoberto Avila as Church 100 r production manager. Avila is a student at the Institute Hispano Pastoral in New 90 - York.

Episcopal Prior to the public event, the Rt. Rev.

the Paul Moore, Jr., Bishop of New York, of will host a reception for the Rev. Uriel Molina, founder of the Valdivieso Cen- ter, and Consul General Leonora Ar- Archives quello de Huper, who will represent

2020. Nicaraguan Ambassador Carlos Tun- nerman at the event. "We believe that Christians in the

Copyright United States have a responsibility to make known here what Christians in Nicaragua are saying about their in- volvement in the Revolution," Avila said. An Italian edition was recently be- gun as well. For information concerning subsub- scriptions, write Amanecer, P. O. Box 681, Audubon Station, New York, N.Y. 10032.

20 THE WITNESS Letters. . .Continued from page 3

confused because I had not seen those EWC plans Lambeth presence articles. A few days later I received the January issue, its manila envelope al- The Episcopal Women's Caucus will be discussed by women from all over ready opened. The same day I received bring a presence of hope and reconcili- the world in an atmosphere of mutual three back issues of the National Catho- ation to the Lambeth Conference, July trust Workshops and lectures are also lic Reporter in manila envelopes. 16 to Aug. 7 at Canterbury. EWC will planned. Clearly someone is monitoring my mail carry the support of Edmond L. Brown- EWC's witness at Lambeth has been and I cannot risk receiving THE WIT- ing, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal designated as a memorial to Janette NESS or NCR in El Salvador. THE WITNESS must be doing something Church, who added that he is "setting Pierce, original chair of the committee, right if the security apparatus of El Sal- out for Lambeth prepared to share the who died earlier this year. Now co- vador has it on its suspect list. riches the ordination of women has chairing the effort are Sally Bucklee, I was very pleased with your articles brought to North American Churches of the Diocese of Washington, and the publication. — once I got them. I was also pleased of the Anglican Communion." Rev. Fran Toy, of the Diocese of Cali-

and to see the April editorial about the Ex- Primary among the concerns of fornia. ecutive Council meeting in Guatemala. some 500 bishops who will be present Members of the EWC Lambeth Com- reuse As one of the Episcopalians ministering from the Anglican Church internation- mittee have also chosen to have no for in this region I was impressed with the ally will be the ordination of women celebrations of the Holy Eucharist at the openness and caring with which the vis- priests and the consecration of women Center in Canterbury. In so doing, they iting members of the Council ap- bishops. will be in solidarity with more than 100 required proached the church in Central Amer- ica. EWC will bring to Lambeth women bishops from the United States and Having seen women and men who from Central and South America, Aus- Canada who have signed a statement cannot afford the 30 centavos bus fare tralia, the Philippines and Africa. saying that they will not celebrate the Permission walk for an hour to come to Episcopal These women, together with U.S. cau- Eucharist while in England, since the services on Sunday, it was affirming to cus members, will be housed at the Church of England, which does not rec-

DFMS. see the highest leaders of the church Spring Grove Oast in nearby Wye ognize women priests, has barred or- / come these thousands of miles to talk which the EWC has leased for the dained women from such actions. with their Salvadoran brothers and sis- three-week meeting. "This is a sacrifice we, too, are pre- Church ters in Christ. They shared some of the The Priory, just outside Canterbury pared to make," Co-chairs Toy and powerlessness of the people here as Cathedral, will be the center from Bucklee said, "as we painfully lay aside they struggled to speak in limited Span- which the women will work, offering the goodness and joy of public eucharis- Episcopal ish or were dependent on others to put hospitality and a gathering place where tic worship with women as celebrants.

the their thoughts and feelings into words. of They were in El Salvador during a the issues on the bishops' agenda can Thus we stand in strength and solidarity paw, a transportation stoppage called with our sisters in the Anglican Com- by the guerrillas, when going out on the munion who are not permitted to exer-

Archives street becomes a political act and the cise their priestly gifts." level of physical danger escalates. WITNESS speaks out The bishops said, "We intend to con- 2020. Members of the visiting Council I have just again read the April WIT- vey to our brothers at Lambeth our con- walked with their seminarian brothers NESS. I did not know this publication cern about this matter and to request all and sisters, sharing a few days of their existed. It speaks of so much that is in provinces to recognize the ordination of

Copyright suffering, powerlessness, fear, and their my own journey and witness and I was women ordained in other provinces and joys, hopes and aspirations. both thrilled, delighted and reassured to offer them the privilege of celebrat- I have great confidence that, as that this voice speaks out. I am looking ing the Eucharist." Bishop Browning said, they will carry forward to being with all of you July Funds are still needed to bring Third their experience "forward into the deci- 5th at the Episcopal Church Publishing World women to Lambeth. Individuals, sion-making of the church," that this Company Awards Dinner in Detroit. visit will have been truly a transforming In the strugggle for peace and justice, parishes or dioceses wishing to help can and converting experience. I remain sincerely yours. send their checks to EWC Lambeth, St. Name withheld to protect respondent Vinie Burrows Philip's Church, 522 Main St., Laurel, El Salvador New York, N.Y. MD 20707.

June 1988 21 Union.. .Continued from page 11 Urban Bishops or the U.S. Roman educated doctors," said the CIR mem- Catholic Bishops issue periodic remind- ber, who added that while many interns ers of the church's moral obligation to and residents were U.S. citizens or had support the right of workers to organ- resident status, some were on student ize. visas, which have to be reapproved ev- CIR has stood its ground at some ery year. Being fired from a program hospitals and won. At Interfaith Hospi- would probably mean deportation and, tal in Brooklyn, formed by the merger for some, being forced to return home of a Jewish and an Episcopal hospital, would have had dangerous conse- the 120 union members went out on quences. Besides, he said, "state and strike for 16 days, the longest house- federal licensing requirements are staff strike in U.S. history, until the much stricter now — being kicked out hospital agreed to negotiate. But at of a residency program would be an- other hospitals, a year or so after the publication. other strike against you." union was defeated, the administration and On the other hand, the union member began to whittle away at benefits and said, "Maybe we were more ready to pay credits, said organizer Elwell. reuse fight, because our foreign graduates Despite the furor, Presiding Bishop for give more value to representation, labor Edmond Browning, who has met with relations, and rights as students or pro- tirely in the hands of the admini- Witcher over the matter and has de- required fessionals. stration. . . Having harassed the clined to meet with CIR representa- "We were treated as an easy target Bishop. . for many months, the tives, has said that he will not get in- for intimidation; they figured we CIR has now decided to mount at- volved in the dispute "because it is out- wouldn't offer much resistance. I think tacks on the Presiding Bishop. . . side his jurisdiction," according to his Permission they were surprised and angered by our who likewise has no input into de- assistant, the Rev. Richard Chang. willingness to respond." cisions affecting EHS. . .CIR con- But in the eyes of the world, the pres- DFMS.

/ CIR is as determined to get its mes- stantly attacks the church's "lack ence of the church at St. John's is read- sage out as the Episcopal Church is to of social responsibility" and "un- ily apparent. In the American Hospital ignore the situation. Feelings are heated ethical" conduct. . .Can it be that Church Association Guide to Health Care Insti- on both sides. Witcher and others at St. John's is small enough with tutions, which lists every hospital and Episcopal Health Services, Inc. (EHS) only 22 residents to constitute an nursing home in the United States, St. appropriate size target for their Episcopal are angered by what they see as CIR's John's classification is "non-govern- unfair and confrontational tactics. In vilification? the ment, not-for-profit, church-operated." of the two years since the dispute began, Both the diocese and Episcopal The church's seeming indifference to CIR has been leafletting parishes and Health Services refused comment, other the ethical and moral implications of a sending information to bishops, as well than to reiterate that the dispute is be- dispute that gives every appearance of Archives as picketing parishes in the Diocese of tween St. John's administration and an attempt to break a union is even Long Island, having somehow obtained CIR, and expressed exasperation at the more curious in light of the fact that the 2020. Witcher's confirmation schedule. union's dogged efforts to get the church U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Labor In response to CIR's allegations, Wil- to admit accountability. One EHS rep- found the situation at St. John's impor- liam E. McCauley, EHS Executive resentative remarked cryptically, tant enough to hold hearings on the Copyright Vice-President, and the Rev. Canon "Original sinners we are not — sinners matter. A CIR member from St. John's Phillip E. Lewis, Vice-President/Pas- maybe, but not original ones." was scheduled to testify, but was suc- toral Care, sent out a letter: EHS argues also that other New cessfully pressured by the hospital ad- EHS is a corporation independent York-area hospitals have refused to ministration not to appear, which of the diocese. The Bishop. . .does deal with CIR. But church institutions moved Sen. Howard Metzenbaum of not have any input into decisions are just as likely as secular ones to get Ohio to comment: having to do with pay scales, caught up in the anti-union atmosphere / am almost tempted to. . .bring in benefits or negotiations with per- of the Reagan era. Because of this, the administrators, to ask them sonnel. These matters are left en- church leaders such as the Episcopal under what circumstances and

22 THE WITNESS what form of Americanism do they tell one of their people that he cannot or should not testify be- fore a committee of the U.S. Sen- ate. . .this is something totally in- appropriate and wrong. At present, the union and the hospital are at a stalemate. The interns and resi- dents have not lost any major benefits yet, but they are looking over their shoulders. The hospital steadfastly re- fuses to deal, and the church maintains its hands-off attitude and disapproval of CIR tactics. publication. CIR is not ready to give up. The un- and ion plans to picket and leaflet at both General Convention and Lambeth. reuse "We wanted to signal that this is a for church institution and they will be singled out to show that we will keep

required our teeth in the ankle, that union bust- ing is a costly procedure and morally reprehensible," said Elwell. Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Presiding Bishop Edmond L. Browning show solidarity. "We have made it unpleasant and un- Permission comfortable for the Episcopal Church to protect its functionaries," said Ra- DFMS.

/ gan. "You bust a union, what do you 'Can't give up,' says Tutu expect? I'd rather deal with corporate raiders like Carl Icahn or Frank Church A residing Bishop Edmond L. Brown- South Africa, Browning said, "We will Lorenzo; at least they take responsibil- ing waited patiently at the altar as continue to press for economic sanc- ity for their actions." South African Archbishop Desmond tions through our Washington office. It Asked how the residents and interns Episcopal Tutu exchanged the peace with nearly is tremendously important that the at St. John's were feeling after two the everyone in the chapel at the Episcopal Episcopal Church in the United States of years of the struggle, the CIR member Church Center in New York on May 3. serve as a channel for the church in said, "If you bring it up, it's a sour The South African Nobel prizewinner South Africa." taste, a sad experience; we were hurt, and outspoken foe of apartheid was in Tutu acknowledged that this support Archives we were used by the administration."!!'^ the United States for a three-week visit. was vital to victory over apartheid.

2020. Tutu was refreshed and relaxed after And despite the continually worsen- Once upon a time leading a week-long retreat at Holy ing situation in his country due to the Cross Monastery in West Park, N.Y. for ruling Afrikaners' refusal to negotiate a Liberty — how prized that gift by those Copyright a group of bishops from Canada, the peaceful solution, Tutu, steadfastly op- who lack it. United States, Mexico, West Indies and timistic, said, "We can't give up on How unclaimed that gift by those who have it. Central America. them; if we do, we might as well shut How unrecognized its decline, Browning, who attended the retreat, up shop as a church. God's grace is as slowly, s I o w I y, it erodes said it was "one of the most meaningful available to everyone. We couldn't ever over time experiences I've ever had. His spiritual say the Afrikaners are a lost cause." until startled in the night we see direction was outstanding." He added, "We have no doubt about once we were free. Making it clear that the U.S. church the outcome of the struggle. Those who Jean C. Higgins was also ready to give serious support are for us are so many times more than to the struggle against oppression in those against us." — S. E. P.

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