There is ample room for faithful professing Anglicans to have principled theological disagreements on the subject of the official acknowledgment of bonded same-sex partnerships.

What strikes me as totally "off the wall and over the cliff" is for the conservative caucus in this denomination to declare that they regard those who happen to disagree with them -- about a highly- contentious and ambiguous issue -- as "renegades from Christian faith and practice". To say this is to say that no gay Christian in a loving relationship could ever be a true Christian.

Few things in this world are absolutely cut-and-dried / absolutely black-and-white. Our still-evolving comprehension of the etiology of faithfully-bonded loving partnerships is "anything but finished" -- just as our comprehension of planetary evolution, cosmology and teleology is anything but finished. The Holy Spirit is still at work on this planet, and still guiding our inner development as people of faith.

I don't understand why conservatives have such a problem about acknowledging the obvious fact that what Christians know and accept today is simply NOT what they knew and accepted 2000 years ago. The human race advances in the subtlety of its understanding. Do the far- right conservatives wish for the progress of our understanding be halted dead in its tracks -- as though nothing of value or significance had been discerned in the past 2000 years?

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