The Diocese of Alaska had a convention a few weeks ago. Our church, All Saints, Anchorage AK offered three resolutions. A fourth was added by several clergy, including yours truly. While the first three were soundly defeated, the fourth was accepted...after it was changed to say something quite different than what the authors intended. In this fourth, we supported our bishop, Mark MacDonald in his efforts to bring unity and truth to bear on TEC (The Episcopal Church) by signing the Camp Allen Statement.

All this from a diocese which a year ago supported Windsor and a diocese whose bishop has never wavered on Windsor, and showed considerable courage in signing the Camp Allen Statement.

Anyway, this was the third straight convention in which the issues arising from the approval of Bishop Robinson were discussed and voted on.

I think people have simply become so hardened in their positions, that further 'dialogue' is really futile. Either we believe the moral teaching of the Bible or we don't.