Global Anglicans Want U.S. Apology for Gay Bishop
From the “We’re all God’s children” files:
The Anglican Church has urged US church leaders to apologise for ordaining a gay priest as bishop.The call was made by the Lambeth Commission, set up after the ordination of Gene Robinson threatened to split the worldwide Anglican church. Commission chairman Irish Anglican leader Robin Eames concluded: “There remains a very real danger that we will not choose to walk together.”
The report called for a moratorium on the consecration of gay candidates. It demanded an explanation from the Anglican Church in the US, known as Episcopalian, about “how a person living in a same gender union may be considered eligible to lead the flock of Christ”.
Scripture must be used to back up the explanation, it added.
Maybe these folks can help the Episcopalians out with that apology…
UPDATE #1: The Episcopalians have expressed “regret” not for their action but for the impact it is having on Anglicans outside the U.S. They expressly refused to apologize, however. Good for them.
UPDATE #2: The African Anlgicans have responded by stating the Episcopalians are “following another religion” and by demanding that the American bishops who voted to ordain Robinson repent. There’s a lot of politics going on here, not to mention bigotry. As one African Anglican, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, put it: being gay is “unbiblical, unnatural and definitely un-African.”
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