This move was prompted by a number of issues on which the clergy felt, in their words, “increasingly misaligned” with the ACNA - women’s ordination (our former diocese ordains women deacons/priests, but many ACNA dioceses don’t and are very hostile to female clergy; and of course there are no female bishops in the ACNA), racial issues (our rector and one of our curates have been repeatedly attacked on Twitter by ACNA clergy for their race/perspective on racial issues), abuse in the church, and treatment of LGBTQ people.
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These tensions have been brewing under the surface for quite some time, but the actual process has been very quick. The clergy brought all of this to the parish less than a month ago! The speed of the process was actually requested by our former bishop [Todd Hunter], for numerous reasons I’m too lazy to get into lol.
Anyway, as the results of the vote indicate, most of us are excited to reconcile with TEC and be part of a body that supports our vision for how we worship God and serve our community. Largely due to the quiet rule-breaking of our clergy, we actually have a number of LGBTQ folks in the parish, myself included (I’m a bisexual cis man), and we are excited to be able to openly celebrate our LGBTQ brothers and sisters, continue to pursue racial reconciliation, and joyfully submit to female clergy (including Bp. Kai Ryan, Suffragan Bishop of the Diocese of Texas, who was gracious enough to cut her vacation short to join us this past Sunday for a Q&A!).
Source: Ladies and gentlemen: we got ‘em. : r/Episcopalian