Canon on Lesbigays in ECUSA Holy Orders

All Bishops of Dioceses and other Clergy shall make provisions to identify fit persons for Holy Orders and encourage them to present themselves for Postulancy. No one shall be denied access to the selection process for ordination in this Church because of race, color, ethnic origin, sex, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, disabilities, or age, except as otherwise specified by these Canons. No right to ordination is hereby established.

--Title III, Canon 4, Section 1 of the Constitution and Canons for the Government of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, Otherwise Known As The Episcopal Church, Adopted in General Conventions 1789-1994, Together with rules of order, Revised by the Convention 1994 , p. 60

Note: This is the only law of ECUSA that has ever mentioned homosexual orientation in any specific way. This canon is a law of ECUSA --not just a recommendation or non-binding resolution.

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