{"id":7158,"date":"2004-10-18T12:13:40","date_gmt":"2004-10-18T19:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/10\/18\/anglican-disunion.html"},"modified":"2004-10-18T12:13:40","modified_gmt":"2004-10-18T19:13:40","slug":"anglican_disuni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/18\/anglican_disuni.html","title":{"rendered":"Anglican disunion"},"content":{"rendered":"

An internal conference of the Anglican Communion has reported to the Archbishop of Canterbury. The Lambeth Commission’s Windsor Report is the next distinct escalation<\/a> in the war of words over church policy and gays.<\/p>\n

The report, published today, called on those in the US Episcopal Church who took part in a “deeply offensive” consecration of a gay bishop to apologise for their actions or withdraw from the Anglican Communion.<\/p>\n

[…] In consecrating Bishop Robinson, the report said, the Episcopal bishops ?caused deep offence to many faithful
\nAnglican Christians.”<\/p>\n

“[They] acted in the full knowledge that very many people in the Anglican Communion could neither recognise nor receive the ministry as a bishop in the church of God of a person in an openly acknowledged same-gender union.” The report called for the withdrawal from the communion of those who took part in the consecration if an apology was not forthcoming.<\/p>\n

It also invited the Episcopal Church to call a moratorium on promoting any other person living in a same-gender union to the bishopric “until some new consensus in the Anglican Communion emerges.”<\/p>\n

“Pending such expression of regret, those who took part as consecrators of Gene Robinson should be invited to consider in all conscience whether they should withdraw themselves from representative functions in the Anglican Communion,” the report said.<\/p>\n

I can certainly see, from my own perspective, offering an <\/em>apology. There is no doubt that the consecration of Bp. Robinson, even if in keeping with the canons of the Episcopal Church (fill in that debate here), was and could have been known to be something that many Anglican Communion leaders and laity would be offended by. The hurt caused by such an action is certainly something to be regretted, and such regrets can be offered without touching on the righteousness of the action involved.<\/p>\n

Of course, that won’t satisfy folks who oppose the action, but …<\/p>\n

The question, of course, is what this all means. The report can ask for all the apologies and moratoriums and so forth all it wants, but it’s not clear that the Episcopal Church can officially respond as a body until the next General Convention (Summer 2006), though the individuals involved can respond to it. Though Episcopal primate Bp. Frank Griswold has responded <\/a>to some degree:<\/p>\n

Griswold previously expressed regret for the turmoil and withdrew as co-chairman of an Anglican ecumenical body. “We regret how difficult and painful actions of our church have been in many provinces of our communion, and the negative repercussions that have been felt by brother and sister Anglicans,” he said Monday.<\/p>\n

He did go on to note:<\/p>\n

Griswold said his church was seeking to live the gospel “in a society where homosexuality is openly discussed and increasingly acknowledged.”<\/p>\n

“Other provinces are also blessed by the lives and ministry of homosexual persons. I regret that there are places within our communion where it is unsafe for them to speak out of the truth of who they are,” Griswold said.<\/p>\n

The report does cover a couple of other bases worth noting:<\/p>\n

The Windsor Report also went on to criticise the demonising of homosexuality. It said: “Any demonising of homosexual persons, or their ill-treatment, is totally against Christian charity and basic principles of pastoral care.”<\/p>\n

[…] The report also called on conservative bishops who have threatened a breakaway faction to apologise and to affirm their desire to remain within the communion.<\/p>\n

The latter is also reported by AP as:<\/p>\n

The report also called on conservative bishops — including some from Africa — who have offered to forge relationships with disaffected Episcopal congregations to desist from such activities, apologize and affirm their desire to remain within the Anglican Communion.<\/p>\n

It further urged those archbishops and bishops who have intervened with Episcopal churches to seek an accommodation with the Episcopal bishop or bishops involved.<\/p>\n

We’ll see how much play that <\/em>gets in various coverage of the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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