{"id":1022,"date":"2005-07-15T14:45:31","date_gmt":"2005-07-15T18:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2005-07-15T14:45:31","modified_gmt":"2005-07-15T18:45:31","slug":"the-episcopal-church-self-destructs-over-homosexuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2005\/07\/the-episcopal-church-self-destructs-over-homosexuality\/","title":{"rendered":"The Episcopal Church Self-Destructs over Homosexuality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pfm.org\/AM\/Template.cfm?Section=BreakPoint1&#038;Template=\/CM\/ContentDisplay.cfm&#038;ContentID=16332\">Breakpoint<\/a> Allan Dobras<\/p>\n<p>Episcopalians Defend the Consecration of a \u201cGay\u201d Bishop<\/p>\n<p>The Episcopal Church has been flirting with a disastrous schism for the last thirty-five years, and now a formal breakup seems inevitable following an unapologetic June 17\u201322, 2005, appearance before the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) in Nottingham, England. The purpose of the meeting was to hear the church\u2019s defense of its consecration of \u201cgay\u201d Bishop V. Gene Robinson.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, the denomination continued to hang together as it blundered through several divisive issues while causing its rolls to plummet by about 1.3 million congregants, or nearly 40 percent of its membership. Remarkably, the church had managed to survive clergymen like Bishop John S. Spong, who institutionalized heretical teachings in the denomination, the failed heresy trial of Rt. Reverend Walter Righter, who opened the church to the ordination of homosexual deacons, and the church\u2019s persistent embroilment in leftist politics.<\/p>\n<p>Now, ramifications from the consecration of Bishop V. Gene Robinson are sending shockwaves through the Anglican community, and the denomination is on the brink of imploding. The June 2003 election of Rt. Reverend Robinson to the office of bishop was the final straw for the traditionalist-minded American Anglican Council (AAC) and a number of conservative prelates\u2014primarily from Africa\u2014who put pressure on the Worldwide Anglican Communion to respond to what they thought to be contrary to church doctrine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breakpoint Allan Dobras Episcopalians Defend the Consecration of a \u201cGay\u201d Bishop The Episcopal Church has been flirting with a disastrous schism for the last thirty-five years, and now a formal breakup seems inevitable following an unapologetic June 17\u201322, 2005, appearance before the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) in Nottingham, England. The purpose of the meeting was &#8230; <a title=\"The Episcopal Church Self-Destructs over Homosexuality\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2005\/07\/the-episcopal-church-self-destructs-over-homosexuality\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Episcopal Church Self-Destructs over Homosexuality\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-in-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}