SPECIAL REPORT: HOUSE OF BISHOPS SESSION, WEDNESDAY MORNING
Matt is getting set up now...
The bishops have reportedly passed a resolution. A group of orthodox bishops has walked out and will issue a minority report.
Sarah report:
Just found out that they are considering the resolution in the HOB!
They have taken it from the HOD for consideration. I?m not certain what that means, but it was my understanding that the HOD received these resolutions first . . . that it had been assigned to HOD at the outset of the convention. I must be mistaken.
Matt is headed up to the HOB, while I stay here and observe.
One very unusual thing that I have noticed. They have shut all the entrance doors to the hall save for one. And there has been a security guard right next to it, plus a few volunteers lined up by it as you enter the one door. Normally five or six doors are open.
In conversation with one other person who is good at analysis, here are three important points regarding the latest resolution.
First, because we have already acted upon resolution 161 yesterday, and this resolution is similar in intent, the rules of the house require a motion to reconsider to pass the HOD -- that motion must pass by a 2/3 majority.
Second, when the Special Commission met and presented their report to the House of Bishops prior to this convention, the Bishop of Exeter was there and indicated that the moratoria resolutions were not enough.
You may recall that part of that language was to exercise ?very considerable caution?.
Third, one could drive a coach and horse through the language of ?exercise restraint?. One might very well exercise restraint but more forward anyway.
There is currently somewhat heated debate occurring on various other resolutions not pertaining to Windsor.
Word is filtering out that the HOB has passed the resolution
There's a press conference scheduled for 1:30 eastern.
The bishops have reportedly passed a resolution. A group of orthodox bishops has walked out and will issue a minority report.
Sarah report:
Just found out that they are considering the resolution in the HOB!
They have taken it from the HOD for consideration. I?m not certain what that means, but it was my understanding that the HOD received these resolutions first . . . that it had been assigned to HOD at the outset of the convention. I must be mistaken.
Matt is headed up to the HOB, while I stay here and observe.
One very unusual thing that I have noticed. They have shut all the entrance doors to the hall save for one. And there has been a security guard right next to it, plus a few volunteers lined up by it as you enter the one door. Normally five or six doors are open.
In conversation with one other person who is good at analysis, here are three important points regarding the latest resolution.
First, because we have already acted upon resolution 161 yesterday, and this resolution is similar in intent, the rules of the house require a motion to reconsider to pass the HOD -- that motion must pass by a 2/3 majority.
Second, when the Special Commission met and presented their report to the House of Bishops prior to this convention, the Bishop of Exeter was there and indicated that the moratoria resolutions were not enough.
You may recall that part of that language was to exercise ?very considerable caution?.
Third, one could drive a coach and horse through the language of ?exercise restraint?. One might very well exercise restraint but more forward anyway.
There is currently somewhat heated debate occurring on various other resolutions not pertaining to Windsor.
Word is filtering out that the HOB has passed the resolution
There's a press conference scheduled for 1:30 eastern.
posted by Greg Griffith at 8:40 AM
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