Episcopal Church agrees to halt pro-gay agenda - The Episcopal Church in the US has agreed to halt the ordination of any further gay clergy in efforts to prevent a schism in the worldwide Anglican Communion.http://www.christiantoday.com/article/episcopal.church.agrees.to.halt.progay.agenda/13399.htm
US bishops offer lifeline in effort to keep world Anglican church intact
A slender lifeline was offered to Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, in his attempt to keep the worldwide Anglican communion intact, when Episcopal bishops pledged at a meeting in New Orleans yesterday to maintain a moratorium on the consecration of gay bishops.
While the statement may satisfy parts of the Anglican communion, and just be enough for the archbishop to sell to other church provinces, it was dismissed by conservative evangelicals as inadequate.The US bishops removed references to the moratorium policy only enduring until their next decision-making general convention in two years' time, but there was no suggestion that the moratorium would be permanent. One evangelical archbishop who has led calls for the American church to be disciplined said the decision was "sticking two big fingers to the communion".
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