The bishops also approved a trial use that redefines Holy Matrimony as “Christian marriage, in which two people enter into a life-long union,” rather than “the woman and the man.”
The House of Bishops defeated resolutions June 23 that would have classified Israel’s treatment of Palestinians as “apartheid” and Palestinians as an “indigenous people” of the land.
Conditions for Palestinians in the West Bank worsen daily, and in the United States, “student intifadas” at some college and university campuses have heated up conversations about this nation’s financial, military, and diplomatic support of Israel’s actions.