DISCRETION

Do no harm.

Leave the world a better place than you found it.
Do not do immoral or bad things.
Axioms, rules to live by.

One of my axioms is: if you find that you must do a bad or an immoral thing, do it so that no one knows about it, except perhaps those folks you are doing it with. Minimization of harm is the idea.

To be sure, some allegedly bad or immoral things are…controversial. That is, they may be good or bad.

It stands to reason that one should think long and hard before going public with a controversial action which could conceivably bring about the diminution or fragmentation or degrading of a worldwide religious denomination.

Why on earth would a clergyman of the American Episcopal Church (AEC) act upon a personal conviction which has caused and likely will cause so much harm in the international Anglican Communion?

Which is best or worst, for a minority of folks to feel that they are somehow discriminated against or for actions of that minority, in this case of one person, to bring about the above-mentioned injury to the Anglican Communion?

Imagine the ego, the sense of self-righteousness that said clergyman must possess.

I wonder if he thinks he is really improving the world…

Discretion is a very civilized form of behavior.

Blatant disregard for an ancient way of doing things, thereby causing harm to that ancient way which is by no means for sure a bad way of doing things, is not civilized.

Shame on the indiscreet.