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"Church wants gay bishop apology"
Oct. 18th, 2004 11:16 amhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3751544.stm
Will they get such an apology? I wonder.
Edit: The article includes the passage:
Dr Eames is being disingenuous; those divisions were hardly "covered" before; what those decisions did is force the Church to deal with those issues, rather than continue to pretend they didn't exist.
Of course, I hardly have a traditional view of ther role of the Church, but to me it seems that humans are as God (if there is one) makes us, and that the Church, an essentially human creation, needs to accept and adapt to the God-created nature of humans, rather than try to force God's creation to adapt to a set of human strictures.
The Anglican Church has urged US church leaders to apologise for ordaining a gay priest as bishop.
The call was made by the Lambeth Commission, set up after the ordination of Gene Robinson threatened to split the worldwide Anglican church.
Commission chairman Irish Anglican leader Robin Eames concluded: "There remains a very real danger that we will not choose to walk together."
The report called for a moratorium on the consecration of gay candidates.
It demanded an explanation from the Anglican Church in the US, known as Episcopalian, about "how a person living in a same gender union may be considered eligible to lead the flock of Christ".
Scripture must be used to back up the explanation, it added.
Will they get such an apology? I wonder.
Edit: The article includes the passage:
Dr Eames said: "Since the 1970s, controversies over issues of human sexuality have become increasingly divisive and destructive throughout Christendom."
He said the ordination of Canon Robinson and the blessing of same-sex unions in Canada had uncovered "major divisions throughout the Anglican Communion".
Dr Eames is being disingenuous; those divisions were hardly "covered" before; what those decisions did is force the Church to deal with those issues, rather than continue to pretend they didn't exist.
Of course, I hardly have a traditional view of ther role of the Church, but to me it seems that humans are as God (if there is one) makes us, and that the Church, an essentially human creation, needs to accept and adapt to the God-created nature of humans, rather than try to force God's creation to adapt to a set of human strictures.
