Patrick
10-19-2004, 04:08 PM
Comment: I'm kind of surprised they've taken a line this hard. Must be the fact that a lot of Anglicans nowadays are black Africans.
Anglicans Urge Ban on Gay Marriage, Gay Bishops
By Gideon Long
LONDON (Reuters) - Anglican leaders, striving to stop their loose association of churches falling apart, urged North American Episcopalians on Monday to ban same-sex marriages and the consecration of gay bishops.
They said liberal North Americans had "broken the bonds of communion" by approving gay unions and ordaining Gene Robinson, a homosexual divorced father of two, as bishop of New Hampshire.
They asked the liberals, based in Canada and the United States, to apologize for their actions and to promise it would not happen again -- at least for now.
In a further fillip to church conservatives, the Anglican hierarchy proposed an Anglican Covenant, a statement of faith which would stress the common identity and shared beliefs of the world's 70 million Anglicans.
Frank Griswold, leader of the 2.3 million U.S. Anglicans -- known as Episcopalians -- gave the report a cool welcome, noting that it strove for a "containment of differences."
http://olympics.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6532846
Anglicans Urge Ban on Gay Marriage, Gay Bishops
By Gideon Long
LONDON (Reuters) - Anglican leaders, striving to stop their loose association of churches falling apart, urged North American Episcopalians on Monday to ban same-sex marriages and the consecration of gay bishops.
They said liberal North Americans had "broken the bonds of communion" by approving gay unions and ordaining Gene Robinson, a homosexual divorced father of two, as bishop of New Hampshire.
They asked the liberals, based in Canada and the United States, to apologize for their actions and to promise it would not happen again -- at least for now.
In a further fillip to church conservatives, the Anglican hierarchy proposed an Anglican Covenant, a statement of faith which would stress the common identity and shared beliefs of the world's 70 million Anglicans.
Frank Griswold, leader of the 2.3 million U.S. Anglicans -- known as Episcopalians -- gave the report a cool welcome, noting that it strove for a "containment of differences."
http://olympics.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6532846