Episcopal Church Ends Moratorium on Consecrating Gay Bishops
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- In a lopsided vote, deputies to the General Convention of the Episcopal Church have effectively repealed a moratorium on the consecration of further gay bishops.
Following initial votes in the church's House of Deputies on Sunday and House of Bishops on Monday, the House of Deputies gave final passage with 72 percent of the vote to an amended version of resolution D025 on Tuesday afternoon. The resolution affirms "that God has called and may call such individuals, to any ordained ministry in The Episcopal Church."
The newly-adopted resolution essentially counters another resolution passed three years ago, in which dioceses were urged to "exercise restraint" in the consecration of practicing homosexuals as bishops. The effect of that resolution was to tenuously keep the Episcopal Church connected to the broader Anglican Communion for the intervening three years.
The Anglican Communion is divided over hot button issues like homosexuality and scriptural authority, with U.S. Episcopal church leaders being more theologically and politically liberal than their overseas counterparts. IRD supports a conservative perspective that affirms traditional church teachings.
IRD Director of Anglican Action Jeff Walton commented,
"In passing this resolution, The Episcopal Church has essentially said it wants to remain at the table, but only on its own terms.
"In the Anglican Communion, 22 out of 37 other provinces are already in a state of either impaired or broken communion with the Episcopal Church. This move by the Episcopal Church will further widen their effective separation from the bulk of worldwide Anglicans.
"The Episcopal Church understands that by abandoning scriptural authority it is cutting itself off from the Anglican Communion. As an autonomous church, it has that choice, now it must live with the consequences."
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The episcopal church is not the bride of Christ.They sold out to the world.And all worldly thinking.They may call them selfs a church but I call them anything but.
Get out of it before it takes you down.Jesus saves and he is coming back for his bride his church.And that is not the episcopal church
By sacraficing their own salvation they took one for their own team. Impressive,sad, but duley impressive. Apparently their team means more to them than their salvation. Weird. If my team does something wrong, Im on it like white on rice.
Like an exsmoker is on a smoker- been there done that, wrong will never be right no matter how hard you try to make it right.Just my thoughts.
How could one throw out the baby with the bath water? I dont know but I bet the Episcopal church could, at least the ones no longer having Anglican communion, whatever that is. Quote;
"The Episcopal Church understands that by abandoning scriptural authority it is cutting itself off from the Anglican Communion. As an autonomous church, it has that choice, now it must live with the consequences." They just forfeited their salvation so they could recruit more into the low way. There are the ones prophesied in Jude. Too bad. Maybe they will come around but they will never be able to convince Gd that the damage they created was not their own fault. Episcopalians are dragging Gd threw the mud, I wonder how long their branch will exist before it withers from being cut off?