Anglicans try to forestall schism over gay rights

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/02/25/news/anglican.html

[The International Herald Tribune] February 25, 2005--Leaders of the global Anglican Communion asked the Episcopal Church USA and the Anglican Church of Canada to withdraw their representatives temporarily from a major governing body of the denomination in an unprecedented move to avoid a schism over the U.S. church's consecration of an openly gay man as a bishop and both churches' blessings of same-sex unions.

The Reverend Jan Nunley, a spokeswoman in New York for the Episcopal Church, said no decision had yet been made on the request. She said the church's presiding bishop, the Most Reverend Frank Griswold, would talk to the three representatives to the Anglican governing body next week about the request.