From Casper Wyoming (Via Philadelphia)
Mary Glasspool is an open, avowed, and active lesbian living in California and an active member of the Episcopal Church. She is now also the new assistant bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles.
Her recent election to the new position has national and even international ramifications. Local Episcopal churches, priests, knowledgeable lay members, and thousands of average members, find themselves on the front lines of a debate.
Episcopal churches in Casper, WY, are no different. Here too the debate is in full throat and people on both sides are feeling the pain of the issue in their personal and spiritual lives.
Pamela Kandt, a lay member of the Episcopal church in Casper, feels deeply about the schism which is currently ongoing in the church. She is clearly passionate about scripture and the context of it; desiring a serious, honest, and open, debate about what is found in the Word of God.
Pamela sees the context of the Bible in terms of what Jesus taught as superseding, or being superior to the Petrine and Pauline doctrines (doctrines evinced by Apostles Peter and Paul), in understanding what God wants for believers.
This paradigm in which she believes with such great conviction, applies in her view to any doctrinal questions/discrepancies between what the Apostles taught and what Jesus taught: therein lies the core of the dichotomy between the two sides.
More here-
http://www.examiner.com/x-33738-Casper-Christianity-Examiner~y2010m3d18-The-Separation-Bishop-Mary-Glasspool-Sola-Scriptura-and-the-debate-on-homosexuality-within-the-Ep
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