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| The worldwide Anglican Communion has been at odds ever since the U.S. Episcopal Church named an openly gay man who lives with his partner as a bishop, and the U.S. and Canadian churches decided to allow individual churches to bless gay unions. Opposition has been led by bishops in Africa, Latin America and Asia. |
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Associated Press (AP), Posted: 7/5/2009, 6:57 PM A senior |
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The Guardian (U.K.), Posted: 2/6/2009, 8:05 AM There were renewed calls yesterday for the resignation of the Right Reverend Gene Robinson, the openly gay bishop of New Hampshire, and of the clergy those who consecrated him. The demand came from the Archbishop of Sudan, the Most Reverend Daniel Deng, who last summer shocked Anglicans by issuing a statement condemning the 2003 decision to consecrate Robinson, a non-celibate gay man, and the US bishops responsible for his appointment. The position was supported by the Episcopal Church of Sudan, which with has four million followers, 300 primary schools and 24 dioceses. It had previously remained neutral on the issue of homosexuality. The unexpected statement was of special concern for the US Episcopal Church, which enjoys close ties to the African country. |
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Associated Press (AP), Posted: 1/6/2009, 8:28 AM Calififornia's high court ruled Monday that three Southern California parishes that left the U.S. Episcopal Church over its ordination of gay ministers cannot retain ownership of their church buildings and property. In the unanimous decision, the California Supreme Court ruled that the property belongs to the Episcopal Church because the parishes agreed to abide by the mother church's rules, which include specific language about property ownership. St. James Church in Newport Beach, All Saints Church in Long Beach and St. David's Church in North Hollywood pulled out of the 2.1 million-member national Episcopal Church in 2004 and sought to retain property ownership. The churches held deeds in their names to the properties. The court ruled that Episcopal Church canons made it clear the property belonged to the individual parishes only as long as they remained part of the bigger church. |
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The Nation, Posted: 1/1/2009, 3:41 PM In the past five years, the Episcopal Church has found itself pushed to the forefront of the culture wars. After Gene Robinson, an openly gay man with a longterm partner, was elected Bishop of New Hampshire in 2003, Anglican bishops from all over the world quickly decried the move. Conservative congregations in the US and Canada left the national churches. Some aligned themselves with the Anglican Church of Nigeria and its outspoken homophobic leader, Archbishop Peter Akinola. On December 3 of this year, these conservatives announced the creation of a new denomination, one that will compete openly with the Episcopalians for congregations and tithes. While not recognized by the Anglican Communion, the New York Times described this latest move as "the biggest challenge yet to the authority of the Episcopal Church," which "threatens the fragile unity of the Anglican Communion." |
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New Haven Register, Posted: 12/20/2008, 11:14 AM When the Rev. Mary Anne Osborne and the Rev. Joanne Neel-Richard get married Dec. 31 at their Guilford home, they will be surrounded by family and friends, including several other Episcopal priests. In the church’s view, a couple marries each other by reciting vows. But an agent of the state — either a clergy person, justice of the peace or other licensed official — must sign the marriage license for the union to be legal in the eyes of the state. Osborne and Neel-Richard plan to ask one of the priests in attendance to sign the license and expect he or she will say yes, even though the national Episcopal Church and Connecticut Bishop Andrew D. Smith do not permit priests to officiate at same-sex weddings, which the state Supreme Court declared legal on Oct. 10. That they can’t get married in their own church is painful for the two women. |
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Los Angeles Times, Posted: 12/18/2008, 1:11 AM Since its founding more than two centuries ago, the Episcopal Church has often struggled to keep disparate factions unified under its diverse umbrella. Now the church faces one of its most daunting challenges yet, with hundreds of conservative congregations forming a separate North American church amid a dispute with liberal Episcopalians over homosexuality and Scripture. Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori sees the latest discord in historical terms, a view that sheds light on Episcopalians' religious and cultural DNA. Similar controversies have come and gone, she told Times reporters earlier this month, but the 2.4-million-member church has remained largely intact -- even if unity has sometimes come at a steep price. "The place of gay and lesbian people in the church is the latest expression of the ancient human struggle over who is 'the other,' " Jefferts Schori said. "There will be another group. I don't know who it is going to be." |
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Associated Press (AP), Posted: 12/5/2008, 3:43 PM Theological conservatives upset by liberal views of U.S. Episcopalians and Canadian Anglicans formed a rival North American province Wednesday, in a long-developing rift over the Bible that erupted when Episcopalians consecrated the first openly gay bishop. The announcement represents a new challenge to the already splintering, 77-million-member world Anglican fellowship and the authority of its spiritual leader, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams. The new Anglican Church in North America includes four breakaway Episcopal dioceses, dozens of individual parishes in the U.S. and Canada, and splinter groups that left the Anglican family years, or in one case, more than a century ago. Its future status in the Anglican Communion is unclear. It is unprecedented for an Anglican national province to be created where any other such national church already exists. |
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Reuters-U.S., Posted: 11/24/2008, 3:33 PM Conservatives who have abandoned the U.S. Episcopal Church by the thousands in recent years are trying to form a separate-but-equal church, a move that could leave two branches of Anglicanism on American soil. "I have tried to see if we can create a safe haven (for traditional views) within the Episcopal Church, but failed," said Bishop Martyn Minns, a leader of the conservatives. He is helping write a constitution for a new church, to be unveiled December 3, in an effort to be recognized as a new entity within the worldwide Anglican Communion. Long-time divisions over scriptural interpretation and gay rights had already fragmented the 2.1-million-member Episcopal Church by 2003 when it consecrated Gene Robinson of New Hampshire as the first bishop known to be in an openly gay relationship in more than four centuries of Anglican church history. |
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New York Times, Posted: 11/17/2008, 3:48 PM The Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth on Saturday became the latest to break with the national church over a dispute that involves the ordination of an openly gay bishop, with clergy members and lay leaders voting overwhelmingly to align itself with a South American province. The Fort Worth diocese amended its constitution to shift allegiance from the Episcopal Church to the Anglican Communion, its parent body. The measure passed by a vote of 72 to 19 among the clergy and 102 to 25 among the laity, at the diocese’s 26th annual convention in Bedford, Tex. The realignment is expected to be temporary while the diocese works to establish a conservative province of the Anglican Communion in the United States, diocese leaders said. Bishop Jack L. Iker laid blame for the split on what he described as “a church that is increasingly unfaithful and disobedient to the word of God |
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Dallas Voice, Posted: 11/14/2008, 10:40 AM Local transgender activist Kelli Busey struggled for years over how her gender identity fit in with faith. But she ultimately gives the credit for finding her soul to a straight friend. “I became involved in a church when a friend kept asking me to go,” she said. “Turns out it was a Metropolitan Community Church so there was complete acceptance of the LGBT community." Busey believes no group should be excluded from faith. That’s why she and the rest of Dallas Transgender Advocates and Allies are planning an event to focus on barriers to faith for transgender people. It will feature a panel of six transgender people talking with Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson, the only openly gay bishop of the Episcopal Church. |
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Towleroad, Posted: 1/11/2009, 10:32 AM
QUICK LOOK:Rev. Ed Bacon's response to a question from a gay man on "Oprah" this week that "being gay is a gift from God" (it's not mentioned in the show summary) has set the Oprah forum boards on fire, with so-called Christians angry at the statement. The show, on spirituality, was broadcast as part of Oprah's "Best Life Week". A sermon from Rev. Bacon entitled "Spiritual Practices for the Weary" which addresses marriage equality and was delivered last year at All Saints Church in Pasadena: |
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12/27/2009
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09/18/2009
power:
Commenting on Story Topic ah yes, the Anglican church. If memory serves correctly, isn't this the church that was created so that Henry VIII could f__k Anne Boleyn as his lawful wife? Lots of Christian values there. Or, is it the one that had Anne Boleyn beheaded for having sex with Henry VIII but unable to produce a male heir? I remember how so many powerful Dukes, Lords, Knights etc., got so rich embracing the King's new religion. It was not a pretty sight and the hundreds that were killed, had property confiscated, left homeless and hungry, all so the King could schtupe some young Princess of the blood into bed. So, tell me again what the problem is with having gays in the Anglican church in any capacity whatsoever? |
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12/21/2008
sixthromeo:
Commenting on Story Topic I am an Episcopalian but foremost a Christian, I will drop the Episcopalian designation anytime the church acts in an un-christian manner. I am so dismayed, anytime someone who calls themselves a Christian or called their group Christian then they judge and denigrate another human being or a group of human beings. Jesus was inclusive, Paul comprised but since he thought it was the end of the world, what difference does a little compromise make; obviously a large one. Be that as it may: I never agreed with the concept of the Anglican Communion, the Anglicans like it because the Episcopalian Church gives them the money to support their habits. If it weren't for US Episcopalin Christians there would be no Anglican Church outside of England. Foreign Anglican bishops who judge and denigrate US Episcopalian Christians live off of those Christians dime. Let the Communion dissolve and if an Episcopalian congregations wants to go Anglican, let them pledge their allegiance to Canterbury and to Elizabeth but if the split is about being like Jesus, those congregations should be aware that they are not Christian and never were. |
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06/29/2007
KJ:
Commenting on Story Topic Chris, Anglican/Episcopalian conservatives are so concerned about being doctrinally pure and orthodoxically correct, that the point that our faith is about a life of love for others is completely lost upon them. As an Episcopalian, I am involved in these discussions, and if this conservative (Really don't like the labels.) were the only face of faith, I'd rather be faithless. |
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03/07/2007
C-Squared:
Commenting on Anglicans rebuke U.S. Episcopal church on gay unions I really don't understand why American conservatives would align with Nigerians who are much harsher toward gays than even the American conservative would ever be. |
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