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Awkward as it may be for an outsider to intrude in the doings of a country or a church that is not his own, I nonetheless believe that the Most Rev. Archbishop Peter Akinola has some explaining to do. The Anglican Primate of Nigeria, one of the most powerful churchmen in Africa, needs to clarify his stance on a Nigerian anti-homosexuality bill he initially supported, which assigns a five-year prison term not only for practicing gays, but also for those who support them. Akinola either needs to publicly renounce, in strong terms, his early support of the bill...
...MOST REV. ROWAN WILLIAMS, Archbishop of Canterbury, chiding conservative Anglican bishops for openly criticizing the U.S. Episcopal Church's acceptance of gay clergy and same-sex unions...
...primates of the Anglican Communion, the 77-million member body that includes the Episcopal Church in the U.S., gave the Episcopalians (with 2.2 million members) less than eight months to swear off officiating at gay commitment ceremonies and set in motion a system of "alternative oversight" for Episcopal congregations so disgruntled with the positions of the American church that they have been demanding their own set of conservative bishops as the price of staying within the church. Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, Anglicanism's first primate among equals and the man responsible for trying to hold the Communion together, made...
...Prior to the move, most observers thought that there were only two vehicles to resolve the differences between Anglican conservatives and American Episcopaliansim - which in 2003 made an openly gay man bishop, in contravention of a 1998 Communion statement that only married heterosexuals should have sex, and has refused to swear off gay union ceremonies. The slow one was a new Anglican core covenant to the margins over a period of years. The fast one was an explosive schism of the worldwide communion into halves: the conservative party, led out of Africa, with the majority of members; and a more...
...conservatives - under a complicated system that still gives Episcopalian Presiding Bishop Katherine Jefferts Schori some say in their regulation - the Communion has engaged in unusual interference with the polity of a member church. But it has also hinted that it would prefer that Episcopalianism remain the main U.S. Anglican branch, provided it is willing to accommodate some more conservative leaders...