But the Rev. Canon Kendall Harmon, canon theologian in the conservative Diocese of South Carolina, said the news saddened him.

Kendall—They didn’t get the memo about “reasserter.” Seriously, this use of “conservative” has given me my best feel for what you have tried to get at with your change of vocabulary. The word has a negative punch in their article.  I get a whiff of condescension and disdain. But maybe that’s just my nose.

Maryland Bishop Eugene Sutton heralded the news as “a great day for the cause of justice and the ministry of reconciliation in the Episcopal Church.

What about the cause of Christ Jesus for the sake of the Gospel?

Justice and reconciliation have long become mere leftist buzzwords that bear zero resemblance to the purposes and will of God, but bear great weight in describing the cause and objectives of the left to deconstruct everything Christian and force the masses back into dark gnosticism.

Blind guides - such “leaders” - wolves in sheeps’ clothing, whited sepulchers every last one of them.

Just read Mark Harris and this seems as relevant a place to comment as any.  Mary Glasspool, at the very least, appears to be a very different and far more admirable person than Gene Robinson.  The need to make her appear exemplary is a little over the top, but, oh well.  Having said that, Harris’ blog is telling.  He correctly rejects the mania of the first this, the first that (shades of Barbara Streisand at the Academy Awards).  But in order to make it all come out right, he has to reduce marriage to friendship—as in, ‘She has a life companion, a partner, “someone to hang on to,” a dear one.’  That works beautifully as a statement of respect for Mary Glasspool’s home; it is utterly inadequate and reductionistic as a description of marriage.  But it is the best description Harris can manage, given his prior commitments (and I base that on some familiarity with the blog).  The reductionism is the consequence for church teaching of the “reappraiser” assault on church practice.  When church teaching is compromised, we, all of us, in our lives, are compromised with it.  To my mind, that’s the problem.