Posted on 12/17/2006 11:54:49 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
FAIRFAX, Va. - Two of the largest Episcopal parishes in Virginia voted overwhelmingly Sunday to break from The Episcopal Church and join fellow Anglican conservatives forming a rival U.S. denomination.
Truro Church in Fairfax and The Falls Church in Falls Church plan to place themselves under the leadership of Anglican Archbishop Peter Akinola of Nigeria, who has called the growing acceptance of gay relationships a "satanic attack" on the church.
The archbishop hopes to create a U.S. alliance of disaffected parishes called the Convocation of Anglicans in North America. Truro rector Martyn Minns was consecrated a bishop in the Church of Nigeria earlier this year to lead Akinola's American outreach.
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori is saddened by any split from the church and will consult her advisers on how the denomination should respond, said Bob Williams, the national Episcopal spokesman.
Ninety percent of Falls Church parishioners and 92 percent of Truro members who cast ballots in the last week supported cutting ties with The Episcopal Church, parish leaders said Sunday.
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The Nigerian Anglican Church of America.
an unusual ring to that.
There are still some thinkers in America. Great news! A Lutheran Church nearby actually has a gay flag posted inside the Christian Fish symbol on the main Marquee. Think about that...In their own sick way they are saying everyone is invited, but they bastardize a Christian symbol which would offend anyone not of degenerate nature.
Ping to you, sir.
Good job. The Christians in the Episcopal Church are taking it back from the hedonists.
Tell me it's ELCA and not one of the orthodox Lutheran synods.
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