Carol was talking yesterday of her hope that Bishop Schori would be elected Presiding Bishop. She said Frank Griswold, whom we both know, is just another of the Eastern elite and knows nothing of people who live in the “fly-over country.” I guess I think the Episcopal Church is mostly people from the two coasts, mainly the eastern coast. They are the majority and the majority rules. Carol is just in a minority and what she complains of is the complaint of all minorities. It reminds me somewhat of Illinois politics, Chicago versus downstate.
I guess I am sounding like a hardass. I’m not; I’m pointing to the hardassedness of the world in which we live, That’s just the way it works.
Unless you have proportional representation. The Diocese of Missouri used to use, and maybe still does use, a weighted voting system so that various constituencies all get some representation. They also use the same process in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts. It seemed to me to work well in both places. It was for her support of this kind of voting that Lani Guinier failed to be confirmed when appointed to a major office.