Anglican Leader Pressured on Gay Movement

The leader of the global Anglican Communion faced enormous pressure Wednesday to repudiate recent moves in North America toward acceptance of gay relationships as world Anglican leaders gathered for an emergency meeting seeking reconciliation.

Thirty-seven Anglican leaders - called primates - began the two-day meeting in Lambeth Palace, the historic London building where the Anglican Communion was formed, after conservative leaders threatened to leave the association over the issue of homosexuality.

The communion's spiritual leader, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, called the unprecedented meeting in August after a decision by the Episcopal Church, the U.S. branch of the Anglicans, to ratify the election of its first openly gay bishop, which sparked the crisis.

Williams' spokesman, the Rev. Jonathan Jennings, told reporters that the mood was "relaxed" as the leaders met Wednesday morning in the palace chapel. Officials confirmed that one primate - Bishop Ignacio C. Soliba of the Episcopal Church in the Philippines - did not attend, because of a previous commitment.

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All are facing crisis now on the issue. There is talk that the Episcopalians will split into two churches over the clash. The ELCA arm of the Lutheran Church will be exploring the issue in the next year and its gonna be rocky. So much for all of God's children living in harmony... The Bible expressedly forbids it - yeah, well, the bible expressedly forbids me from wearing clothing of mixed cloth....

I am a gay female who uses Leviticus to "defend" gays...I really like to do it when I'm at lunch with someone eating a ham sandwich or lobster sald...lmao

decide to break away and do their own thing.

Most religious people I know don't give a toss about the gay issue and get along fine on an individual basis with others of their own faith or of other denominations.

It's the goddam 'spiritual leaders' who can't get along with each other because religion is a politicised mechanism controlled by organised crime, in business to scare people about 'the afterlife' and thus make money.

...split over thge issue of race?

Wasnt the Southern Baptist branch against integration at one time?