Row over gay clergy splits Anglican gathering - One quarter of world's bishops boycott meeting

The Globe and Mail ^ | July 17, 2008 at 5:12 AM EDT | Paul Majendie

[mkleesma]

CANTERBURY, ENGLAND — A quarter of the world's Anglican bishops boycotted a once-in-a-decade gathering of church leaders yesterday in a row over gay clergy.

Church officials said that 230 of the 880 bishops in the Anglican worldwide communion were staying away from the Lambeth conference, being staged in the English cathedral city of Canterbury, spiritual home of the deeply divided church.

Bishops from Nigeria, Kenya and Uganda, who boast some of the fastest-expanding congregations in the Anglican Church, were among those who pledged to snub the conference.

Liberal and conservative clergy have been brought to the brink of schism over the ordination in 2003 of Gene Robinson in New Hampshire, the first openly gay bishop in the church's 450-year history.

[mkleesma]

I'm hoping these REAL Anglicans from Africa bust the Lambeth conference wide open! As Christ said, "Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn 'a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law — a man's enemies will be the members of his own household"

...and a church against itself!

[johnnycap]

Insolence...send them all to the tower!! Off with their heads!!! I’ll teach them who their god is.

[PAR35]

Ping

[Huber]

Thanks to PAR35 for the ping.

Traditional Anglican ping, continued in memory of its founder Arlin Adams.

FReepmail Huber or sionnsar if you want on or off this moderately high-volume ping list (sometimes 3-9 pings/day).
This list is pinged by Huber and sionnsar.

Resource for Traditional Anglicans: http://trad-anglican.faithweb.com
Humor: The Anglican Blue

Speak the truth in love. Eph 4:15

[xJones]

Predicting it will end with a typically fudged Anglican consensus,

What an unfortunate choice of words for Vicky Gene Robinson.

[Salvation]

This is getting more serious than I thought.

[rbmillerjr]

Spread amongst the good in the whole is much evil. I’ve always been tolerant of homosexuals. My wife and I even had a couple as friends at one point in our life.

Love the sinner, hate the sin, we’ve always tried to live. But, that was a response to 15 years ago, when the politics of homosexuality was “give us basic civil rights”. I had no problem with that on a political level, though disdaining the personal lifestyle.

Now, however, the homosexual zealots are demanding the end to the holy sacrament of matrimony and demanding via political correctness they be accepted in churches. They demand we abide the laws of political correcteness and throw away God’s laws. Robinson’s remark was so condescending and smug, talking about how the Anglicans will fudge compromise and thus accepting man’s laws over God’s laws.

One can’t help but think that there is evil in his intentions. The followers of Jesus Christ will be persecuted and we’re just seeng the beginning of it. In time, most churches will be shallow shells of Christianity, few churches will keep the Laws.

[sionnsar]

This is getting more serious than I thought.

When Anglicans quit talking and begin to act, it's VERY serious.