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Speakers at yesterday’s rally included an interracial gay couple from the Mass. Supreme Court case, a gay couple who would be celebrating their 49th anniversary in May, senators, legislators and one Protestant and one Anglican minister who expressed the support of their parishes for gay rights...
CONSECRATED. V. GENE ROBINSON, 56, as bishop of New Hampshire and the first openly gay prelate in the Episcopal Church; in Durham, N.H. Conservative Anglican church leaders around the globe declared a state of "impaired communion" with the American church but stopped short--for now--of a threatened official break. After receiving a standing ovation from a crowd of more than 3,000 gathered for the consecration, Robinson said: "It's not about me; it's about so many other people who find themselves at the margins...
...Church Divided U.K. Two days of crisis meetings in London between 37 Anglican primates failed to lift the threat of a schism in the worldwide church over the issue of homosexuality. In his attempts to keep the 70 million-strong Communion together, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams put aside his own personal views that same-sex partnerships, if stable and faithful, could be legitimate in God's eyes. His efforts were successful enough to secure a unanimous statement from deeply divided liberal and conservative primates. It warned that "the future of the Communion itself will be put in jeopardy...
...Dallas last week that often felt more like a tent revival than the rump caucus of a denomination sometimes known as "God's frozen people," Episcopal Bishop of Pittsburgh Robert Duncan wished Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, "the wisdom of Solomon." Williams, the spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion, will preside this week over a meeting in London that may decide the future of the denomination in the U.S. and around the world, so he can certainly use the good wishes. But what gave Duncan's salutation its special bite was that he specified the Biblical anecdote in which...
...episcopacy. American liberals insist that the primates have never produced that specific a demand. And since their meetings customarily end with a statement made by consensus, stubborn opposition by a handful of liberals could force a milder conclusion. Others have suggested an option more in keeping with the Anglican penchant for "muddling through." Last Friday Cape Town Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane, the most liberal of Africa's primates, proposed that a commission be set up to study how the church might learn to live with its disagreements on this issue, just as it did on women's ordination. "Reducing issues...