Anglican Church On The Verge Of Permanent Split Over Homosegxwal Decision

Church leaders from Africa and Asia are threatening to walk out of a crucial meeting chaired by the Archbishop of Canterbury unless American bishops drop their support for gay marriage.

Archbishop Justin Welby last year invited the leaders of the worldwide Anglican Church to the summit in Canterbury next week in a ‘make or break’ effort to avert a permanent split over homosegxwality.

The row has torn the Church apart for a decade – with conservatives accusing liberals of abandoning the word of God by backing openly gay bishops and marriages for gay couples – and the Archbishop wants to broker a deal to allow both sides to co-exist peacefully.

But insiders said a hardcore of eight to 12 conservative archbishops from Africa and Asia are preparing to quit the meeting on the first morning unless the liberal Americans ‘repent’ or the Archbishop throws them out.

In what would be a massive challenge to Archbishop Welby’s authority, the conservatives, who represent some of the biggest of the 38 individual Churches in the worldwide ‘Communion’, are then likely move to their own headquarters nearby for the rest of the meeting.

While they are unlikely immediately to break their historic ties with the Archbishop of Canterbury – the nominal head of the Communion – they would boycott future official meetings and set up a parallel church, drawing away traditionalists from the Church of England.

The Mail on Sunday has learned that feelings are running so high that the three most powerful leaders, the Archbishops of Nigeria, Kenya and Uganda, were last week on the brink of snubbing the meeting altogether, but were persuaded to attend by colleagues still hoping to force concessions from Welby.

Sources said they have lost patience with the Archbishop’s refusal to discipline the liberals for ignoring official policy urging them to refrain from creating gay bishops or approving gay marriage without widespread agreement.

But liberal leaders have said Archbishop Welby has assured them that no one will be expelled from the meeting.

The Archbishop will instead propose that the Communion becomes a more loosely linked ‘federation’ to keep everyone in the ‘family’ – which aides have compared to ‘moving into separate bedrooms’ rather than full-scale divorce.

The bitter divisions led Archbishop Welby to postpone last year’s Lambeth Conference, the regular gathering of all Anglican bishops from around the world that has been held nearly every decade, except during the two world wars, since the 1860s.

The last, in 2008, was boycotted by key conservatives furious with the liberal American Church for consecrating an openly gay bishop, Gene Robinson, in 2003. The Americans accuse conservatives of fostering homophobic attitudes.

The Church of England currently bans same sex marriage in church, but it is under huge pressure to relax its stance. Lambeth Palace said: ‘The Archbishop has invited everyone. If people walk out that will be viewed with disappointment rather than anger, and the door will always be open.’

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Posted: at 3-01-2016 10:16 AM (9 years ago) | Addicted Hero

WHY WOULD ANY SANE CHURCH SUPPORT SAME SEX MARRIAGE WHEN IT IS CLEARLY WRITEN IN THE HOLY BIBLE THAT ANY MAN THAT COMIT HOMOsegxwalISM MUST BE KILLED. WHICH BOOK DO THEY MAKE USE OF IF NOT BIBLE?

Posted: at 3-01-2016 10:40 AM (9 years ago) | Upcoming

Wahala!

Posted: at 3-01-2016 11:36 AM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Any Christ-like Church should make the Holy Bible their base. The Bishops that are in support of GAY marriage are ANTI-CHRIST and they the real crusaders the 666 mark. I am begging the real christains Bishops not only to walk out of such devilish meeting but to damand to know the agenda of any meeting in oder to know if they will atten or not.The GAY marriage is against the word of God and Christans should be far from it.

Posted: at 3-01-2016 11:37 AM (9 years ago) | Hero

No church shal accept wat d world brings bt rather wat d church model n teaches

Posted: at 3-01-2016 12:06 PM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac

End time thing.

Posted: at 3-01-2016 12:44 PM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac

I'M PLEADING WIT ALL CHURCHES NOT TO ENGAGE IN DIS GAY ACT, PLS OO.

Posted: at 3-01-2016 03:58 PM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac

They shld not agree wit dat church of England. They want to bring bak all d parties together so they will twist d rules and bring in d gay right thru d bak door.

Posted: at 3-01-2016 06:12 PM (9 years ago) | Addicted Hero

Very good. Africans are not animals

Posted: at 4-01-2016 09:20 AM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac

WHY WOULD ANY SANE
CHURCH SUPPORT SAME SEX
MARRIAGE WHEN IT IS
CLEARLY WRITEN IN THE HOLY
BIBLE THAT ANY MAN THAT
COMIT HOMOsegxwalISM MUST BE KILLED. WHICH BOOK
DO THEY MAKE USE OF IF NOT
BIBLE?

Posted: at 10-01-2016 09:21 AM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac