Posted on 03/23/2005 7:17:49 PM PST by newheart
Frank Griswold, Episcopal Presiding Bishop, says conservative activists are using deceptive tactics. Interview by Deborah Caldwell Beliefnet.net
For nearly two years, Frank Griswold, the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, has been in the vortex of his denomination's controversy over its election of an openly gay bishop. Since then, those opposed to the church's liberal stance on homosexuality have been taking steps to circumvent the bishop's authority in order to "replace" the Episcopal Church with conservative leadership.
At a meeting last month in Ireland called by Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams (head of the Worldwide Anglican Communion), the communion's top bishops, called "primates," asked the Episcopal Church to withdraw its representatives from a prominent world Anglican meeting to show their displeasure with the American actions. During the Ireland meeting, American conservative activists were seen wining and dining African and Asian primates who oppose the Episcopal Church's stance on homosexuality. Liberals accuse conservatives of plotting a coup, using the African and Asian primates.
Last week, the American church's House of Bishops met at a retreat in Texas to discuss the Ireland meeting. They issued a statement saying they will not approve any newly elected bishop--gay or straight--until the denomination's General Convention meets next year. Griswold, meanwhile, told the bishops he believes the conservative tactics are "evil." During a phone interview last week, Griswold explained his comments, and he also said he believes that the liberal, pro-gay rights cause will in the end win. Following is an edited transcript of the interview.
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Traditional Anglican ping, continued in memory of its founder Arlin Adams. And, just how does one reconcile one group of people whose goal is to fight the HIV/AID's pandemic & another group whose goal is to normalize & approve perverse sexual practices that only add to the spread of this disease? The answer is...you can't. Griswold can "spin" like a top, but it doesn't change the fact that these agendas remain mutually exclusive in the secular world, let alone the spiritual world.
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