An intense drama played out in Columbus, OH this week at the Episcopal Church (USA) General Convention. There were a number of significant votes, but the most jarring one for the Anglican Communion has to be the rejection outright of "Resolution A161" in response to the Windsor Report, a call from the rest of the Anglican world for the Americans to stop ordaining bishops who openly refuse to live in chastity, specifically, those who openly assert their right to a sexually active homosexual relationship. Also, a woman bishop who has asserted her strong opposition to Resolution A161 was elected primate over the entire American Episcopal Church.
It is important to note that this is not just a rift between liberal and conservative U. S. Episcopalians, although much of the talk has made it seem that way. It’s the apparent implosion of a global communion. The Anglican provinces in Asia and Africa are not going to be happy about this.
The grief this is causing for traditional Anglicans in the United States is apparent. Three dioceses in the United States asked for another bishop somewhere in the world to serve as their primate instead of the elected primate. The election of the female bishop was seen by many as gauntlet-throwing, because (geographically if not by population) most of the Anglican world doesn’t view the ordination of women to the bishopric even as valid, let alone allowable.
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