Sunday, July 13, 2008

Archbishop of Canterbury's position is 'almost untenable', says gay American bishop

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1034689/Archbishop-Canterburys-position-untenable-says-gay-American-bishop.html

[Daily Mail] 13 July 2008--A leading Anglican gay bishop has described the Archbishop of Canterbury's position in the church as 'almost untenable'.

The Right Reverend Gene Robinson, the American churchman whose appointment as a bishop triggered a devastating split among Anglican leaders, said that Dr Rowan Williams now faces condemnation whichever way he turns.

But he insisted he had great sympathy with the embattled Archbishop and pledged to support his efforts to keep the warring sister churches of the Church of England together in the 400-year-old Anglican network.

Dr Williams has banned Bishop Robinson from the troubled gathering of Anglican bishops from across the world that is due to begin in Canterbury this week.

The bar on the gay Bishop of New Hampshire was an attempt to ease tension at the Lambeth Conference that is torn with dissension between conservatives and liberals over gay rights.

But Bishop Robinson yesterday launched a plea for the acceptance of homosexuality in the Church from the fringes of the Conference.

He used the pulpit of a prominent London church to make his case, and reinforced it with a series of media appearances in which he declared that sexuality was 'important but not essential'.

Robinson's eating up all the attention the liberal media is giving him. I wonder what he would do if no one paid any attention to him--ignored him completely.

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