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22. June 2006
Backdoor claim over civil marriages
The “back door” endorsement of gay civil marriage by the US House of Bishops at the 75th General Convention has created two mutually incompatible Anglican faiths, the Bishop of Rochester, the Rt Rev Michael Nazir-Ali has declared.
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22. June 2006
The latest summary from TEC’s General Convention - 22 June 2006
We have put together various links from T19 and TA for ease of reference for those trying to catch up on the events surrounding the Convention:
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22. June 2006
Initial Observations on General Convention - Anglican Communion Institute – June 21, 2006
The Windsor-related resolutions coming out of General Convention today require, as the Archbishop of Canterbury has noted, some time for study before their significance and import can properly be evaluated. Such study, furthermore, must be done in the context of the wider Communion, and not simply from the limited perspective of our...
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21. June 2006
Response from Canon Martyn Minns, Truro Church, American Anglican Council
Sadly this - the overwhelming rejection of resolution 161 - shows that the Special Committee was asked to do an impossible job, the gap is unbridegeable. It reveals that within this convention there are two different churches with two irreconcilable truth claims.
However these two churches were united in their desire for clarity.
This...
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21. June 2006
Comments from the Most Revd Gregory Venables, Primate of the Southern Cone
From the Most Revd Gregory Venables, Primate of the Southern Cone
“The Anglican Primates, indeed the range of instruments of unity across the Communion could not have been more clear in what the Episcopal Church has been asked to do. The election of the new Presiding Bishop has provided us with abundant clarity of the commitments...
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21. June 2006
Anglicans “are close to anarchy” in dispute over female bishop - Times Online
Last night representatives of the Episcopal Church rejected suggestions that they broke with the worldwide Anglican Communion when they elected Bishop Robinson. In its first action, the 843-member House of Deputies rejected language expressing regret for “breaching the proper constraints of the bonds of affection” by his election....
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22. June 2006
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