Glasspool gets a majority! (Or, +Gene will have company in the HOB come May)

Both ENS and the Diocese of Los Angeles have reported that the Rev. Canon Mary Glasspool has received the required number of consents by bishops and standing committees of the Episcopal Church in order to be consecrated bishop suffragan of the diocese of Los Angeles. (The Rev. Canon Diane Jardine Bruce, currently rector of St. Clement's, San Clemente, who was elected to the other bishop suffragan post at Diocesan Convention last December, received the required number of consents on February 17.)


[EDITED March 12th: I should have said that this is not completely official yet; we will have to wait for when the P.B. confirms that she has the required number of consents from bishops having jurisdiction and from the standing committees of all of the dioceses. So, informally, it's almost as if the points have been won, except that the puck hasn't hit the net yet, so to speak. Or it's a slam dunk, except the ball hasn't gone through the hoop, yet. Choose your own sports metaphor. :-) ] 


Congratulations, Diane and Mary! Their consecrations are set for Saturday, May 15th, at the Long Beach Arena. Chief consecrator at that occasion will be the Presiding Bishop and Primate, the Most Rev. Katherine Jefferts Schori.


So, come May 15th, we'll have two openly... hmm, this is where English gets tricky with respect to listing both +Gene Robinson and Mary Glasspool+ and their sexual orientation in one sentence. You can't say “gay or lesbian” bishops, because one is gay, the other is lesbian, so “or” in that context just sounds weird. You can't really use “gay” because many lesbians reject being lumped in with the men with “gay,” and prefer “lesbian” (though I don't know where Mary+ stands on that). Maybe “gay and lesbian” would work, since we know +Gene's a man and Mary's+ a woman.


Oh, heck; how about “openly same-sex partnered bishops,” then?


No matter how you phrase it, it's a wonderful time to be in a church that values openness and honesty in all things—openness to how all of us are created, in our many and varied ways, and honesty in being true to whom we are, and not trying to hide, lie, or subvert whom we were meant to be.


Alas, there will be Anglicans in other parts of the world that will disagree. But we do not seek to impose our will on them—nobody's telling them they have to ordain women, let’s say, let alone gay or lesbian people—so why should they seek to impose their will on us?