Because of its refusal to back down on its position regarding the ordination of Gene Robinson and its wider views on homosexuality, the Anglican Consultative Council has told the North American church to stay out of their meetings for three years.
Speaking for God, Canon David Anderson said, “[God] really wants men and women to live out their sexually active lives in conformity with what his word is and his word calls for sexual activity to be between a husband and wife of opposite genders in a lifelong union.”
Reverend Susan Russell of the U.S. gay Christian group Integrity (who really shows that some Christians do have integrity with this comment) responded, “Does God care more about our sexual orientation or our theological orientation? Is this an issue that should split a communion when our attention should be focused on people dying of malaria and children with Aids in Africa? And if one's theological orientation is determined to be correct, faithful and holy, then we see no bar to ordination.”
African Anglican bishops have been refusing millions of dollars in contributions from Episcopal churches that supported the consecration of gay Bishop Gene Robinson while those in need of the money starve and die of AIDS.
Divided they go.
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