In his response to General Convention, the Archbishop of Canterbury noted that ‘It is not yet clear how far the resolutions passed this week and today represent the adoption by the Episcopal Church of all the proposals set out in the Windsor Report’. What follows is an initial attempt to set out the necessary details and possible assessments in order to gain greater clarity on the crucial test of whether or not the Episcopal Church has adopted ‘all the proposals set out in the the Windsor Report’.
The Windsor Report (and later statements from the Instruments) set out recommendations in relation to three very specific areas for the General Convention:
· a particular interpretation of the events at and following its last meeting in 2003 and to respond to the Communion accordingly
· commitments concerning future elections and consecrations to the episcopate
· commitments concerning the future response of the church to same-sex unions
What follows traces what General Convention has done in each of these three areas in the light of previous actions by the authorities of ECUSA and the requests of the Communion. Following that an assessment is offered.
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