Anglicans tell US Church to repent over gay bishop

The Telegraph ^ | Sept. 26, 2004 | Elizabeth Day

[WashingtonSource]

The American Anglican church is to be told to "repent" for consecrating a homosexual bishop and to remove him from his post or face exclusion from the Anglican Communion.

A commission headed by . . . . Robin Eames[snip]

Its report, to be published next month, is expected to recommend that the Episcopalian Church should be excluded from the Anglican Communion if the Bishop of New Hampshire, the Rt Rev Gene Robinson, a homosexual, does not step down from his present post.

Many African Bishops are likely to call for Bishop Robinson's immediate resignation.

The Nigerian Church is already founding new evangelical churches in America in response to the crisis and Ugandan Bishops have taken three US parishes under their "care."

[Snip]

One member of the commission, the Archbishop of Kaduna, Josiah Iduwo-Fearon, of the Anglican Church of Nigeria, last week compared the American church to a misbehaving child that had to be taught a lesson. The archbishop, who has never before spoken publicly on the issue, said that the American Church would have to admit that the consecration had been harmful to the overall interests of worldwide Anglicanism, or face suspension.

He said that the 17-strong Lambeth Commission, set up last October to seek ways of maintaining the Anglican Communion that was divided between evangelicals and liberals over the issue, had agreed that the only way forward was for the Episcopalians to apologise for their actions.

"The thrust of our concerns is that our communion is a family and if you have a family there has to be give and take for us to keep the family together," he told The Sunday Telegraph.

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[WashingtonSource]

This is the first time anyone from the Commission is reporting what will be in the report due October 18th. I don't know how to set up a link, but the link for the story indicated above.

[WashingtonSource]

Oops. I see this is a duplicate. First posted an hour ago. But got only one reply.

This is big news, people on the gay bishop scandal. Hello out there.

[FormerLib]

I only wish Freeper ahadams were here to tell us about it...but I'm sure he's watching.

[Miss Marple]

Yes, it is a big deal. I think this will allow those churches which wish to leave the American church to keep their property. They will remain Anglicans, and the heathens can be the ones forced to leave.

[WashingtonSource]

The source for this story is on the commission. He's saying that Vicky Gene must step down or else ECUSA gets thrown out of the Communion. This is from one of the African bishops. The liberals have been keeping mum on what's in the report.

BTW how does one ping someone? I could ping ahadams.

[altura]

verry interesting to me and makes me miss AAdams.

[Ciexyz]

Wow! The international Episcopalian body is really stamping on the toes of the US liberal elitists.

[WashingtonSource]

If Vicky Gene steps down and Frank Griswold and the other 61 revisionists repent, then ECUSA can remain intact. However, I can't imagine the vain Vicky Gene stepping down. He would rather die first. And, as for most of the revisionists repenting. I would suprised if even one of them did.

I would seem if they do not repent, then the congregations leaving ECUSA have an even better claim to their property.

[WashingtonSource]

What happened to AAdams, or should I not ask?

[Miss Marple]

I agree. Since in my opinion this has ALWAYS been about grabbing the property, endowments, and art collections, I am glad to see this statement by the Anglicans.

I think the apostates overplayed their hand in the effort to drive most of the traditional people away, and it is coming back to bite them.

[RFEngineer]

Thank God for the bastion of civilization that is African Anglicanism. They are going to bring the word of God to the savages that inhabit what used to be a great religion in North America - bringing promise that, with their leadership, it can again be the great salvation it once was, long ago.

[WashingtonSource]

Isn't incredible, Miss Marple, that liberal bastions are falling all around us. Kerry, the Dems, CBS, Rather and now possibly the arrogant bishops of the Episcopal Church?

For great Justice!

[Miss Marple]

Yes, it is amazing. God works in mysterious ways, his wonders to perform.

[downwithsocialism]

Great news. Thanks for posting this.

[WashingtonSource]

Back during the Lambeth Conference in 1998 at Canterbury, the evil Bishop of Newark John Spong called the Africans stupid and superstitious. However, when a reporter investigated their credentials, the African bishops actually had higher educational levels than those in North America and England -- so not only are true, faithful, and holy men of God, they also represent a more educated and informed group of bishops than the apostates in England and America. Spong and his ilk are the real stupid ones here.

Thank God for the African Anglican bishops!

[WashingtonSource]

You're welcome.

I trust the report will recommend what this source says will be recommended. He seems pretty reliable.

[RFEngineer]

"Thank God for the African Anglican bishops!"

Say it again!

[plushaye]

He was a very nice man and a great Freeper who was in charge of the Anglican news ping list. He passed away recently.

[WashingtonSource]

Thanks very much for letting me know. God bless him for the work he did.

[WashingtonSource]

The timing of this story is also propitious in another way. The House of Bishops for ECUSA is meeting in Seattle, I believe, at this very moment. I wonder if the news has reached them yet?