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says church may split over gay bishops

Anglican head
says church may split over gay bishops

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The head of the worldwide Anglican Communion has warned that the church of 70 million people may fundamentally split over the consecration of gay bishops.

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The head of the worldwide Anglican Communion has warned that the church of 70 million people may fundamentally split over the consecration of gay bishops. The archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, told a BBC television show over the weekend that the move by the Episcopal Church, the Communion's American branch, to fully include gay people may result in a permanent "rupture," reports The Daily Telegraph in London. "If there is a rupture, it's going to be a more visible rupture; it is not going to settle down quietly to being a federation,'' Williams said. "And I suppose my anxiety about it is that if the Communion is broken, we may be left with even less than a federation.'' The remarks are the archbishop's strongest yet on the topic and come ahead of the Episcopal Church's General Convention in Ohio in June, at which American leaders are under pressure to sign off on a moratorium prohibiting the consecration of gay bishops as well as the blessing of unions of gay couples. The issue of the church's full inclusion of gay people was touched off by the consecration of New Hampshire's V. Gene Robinson as the Anglican Communion's first openly gay bishop in 2003. Last week the diocese of California announced that two of the five candidates to become its new bishop are gay or lesbian. (Advocate.com)

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