Posted on 05/19/2010 2:39:06 AM PDT by markomalley
In response to an openly gay woman being ordained a bishop in the Episcopal Church on Saturday, Anglican leaders from around the world decried the action as “gravely concerning and wrong,” with some adding that the move has “hurt and alienated” many within the Episcopal community.
Fifty-five year-old Mary Glasspool, an openly parterned lesbian, was ordained a bishop at Long Beach arena on May 15. Some 3,000 people attended the ceremony which featured a procession with liturgical dancers in bright colored outfits, costumed dragons and drums, according to Virtue Online.
This recent move by the Episcopal church in the U.S. has caused tremendous controversy within the global Anglican church, prompting Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams to issue a statement of caution when the announcement of Glasspool's ordination was first made last year. He urged church leaders at the time to consider the “implications and consequences of this decision.” Archbishop Williams wrote in March that the Episcopal leaders' later confirmation of Glasspool's election as bishop-suffragen was “regrettable.”
Several world leaders within the Anglican community denounced Saturday's ordination.
“The decision of the Episcopal Church of the United States of America to consecrate as a bishop a woman in a sexually active lesbian relationship is gravely concerning and wrong,” said Rev. Dr. H. William Godfrey, bishop of the the Anglican Church of Peru on May 15.
“It is impossible,” he added, “to know by what authority the Episcopal Church is taking this action. It is disobedient to the Word of God, to the teaching of the Church, and deeply hurtful and damaging to their Christian brothers and sisters.”
“It appears,” the bishop observed, “that their decision is being taken in accord with their instincts and feelings, and the ways of the liberal society in which they live, and that they have forgotten the moral values and teachings of the Holy Scriptures and their Church.”
A coalition of Evangelical Anglicans in Ireland issued a joint statement expressing support for those within the Episcopal community who feel “hurt and alienated” by Glasspool's ordination.
“Many Christians of all traditions and denominations will share our sorrow and see Mary Glasspool's consecration as a defiant rejection of pleas for restraint and, even more importantly, as a rejection of the pattern of holiness of life called for in Scripture and endorsed by believers over the centuries,” they wrote on Sunday.
Rev. Robinson Cavalcanti, Bishop of the Diocese of Recife in Brazil, said in a statement on May 15 that the ordination was “lamentable” and that it has caused “a de facto rupture” within the Anglican community.
The bishop of the Diocese of Caledonia, Rev. William Anderson, added that he “can only hope that the Archbishop of Canterbury will finally accept that bishops and national churches who choose to willfully ignore the teaching of the Anglican Communion and Holy Scripture, ought to suffer the natural consequence of choosing to go their own way - which is to say, that they ought to be considered to have left the Anglican Communio
Does Rowan the D*ckless have any actual authority to kick said bishop and her congregation out of the Anglican order or just wring his hands?
I’m just curious, mind you. It ain’t my fight.
Sounds like a Castro District function. Don't know who or what these idiots profess themselves to be, but whatever it is.....is sure as hell isn't "Christian".
Anyone still wondering why so many mainstream denominations are dying on the vine?
The problem is, they’re NOT on the vine - they disconnected themselves from it (Him) long ago.
But what’s the difference between this lesbian bishop and what’s-his-name the homosexual bishop, who, at last reporrt, was no longer in his “committed relationship”?
You can't blame the camel for crawling into your tent if you don't slap his nose when it first comes in.
Anglicans, and Christians in general (myself included), have got to learn that we cannot compromise with sin.
What the Anglicans did in handling the Vickie Gene Robinson ordination as bishop, and the ordination as priests of active sodomites before that was compromise with sin. God tells us to shun those involved in habitual sexual immorality (and be ready to receive them back into fellowship when they repent) not to encourage/enable them in their sin.
The ordination of this lesbian was as certain as day follows night once the sodomites got away with the robinson ordination.
Surely I'm not the only one this is obvious to?!
I'm pretty sure he's light in the loafers himself. Else why would he allow such obvious flaunting of sin in the face of God's law?
I’m so glad I left that liberal cesspool.
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