Goodbye Episcopalians Hello American Anglican Church

If you read Mod-Blog enough then you know that I am almost obsessed with developments within the Christians church, whether that be Pentecostals, Roman Catholics, Methodists or anything else. When I saw this I almost fell over. Yesterday the Episcopalian Church elected their highest bishop in the land and for the first time ever it was a woman that won. I have no problem with this, as a matter of fact I thought it was great. Then she opened her mouth and said "homosexuality is no sin". I believe she is wrong on this, not so much because the bible is anti-gay, but because the bible is overwhelmingly pro-heterosexual thus making it clear that any sexual relationship other than monogamous heterosexual marriage is wrong. But that is beside the point for me on this one.

The Episcopalians are part of the Anglican Church. The ties between the Episcopalians and the Anglicans have been strained in recent years because of the election of a gay bishop. In fact at the present conference where this new highest bishop was elected they were supposed to vote on some statements about whether or not they were sorry for electing a gay bishop and straining the ties within the church. She knows all of this history and she knows the wording of the resolutions to be voted on. You don't say something like "homosexuality is not a sin" in this context unless you're looking for a fight and in this case to case a schism unlike anything seen within protestantism for some time and possibly ever. If she wants to hold this opinion then that is fine - it's her right (as a good friend of mine used to say "you have the right to your opinion granted your wrong"). But as the newly elected highest bishop in the land you don't say stuff like this - you get some peon under you to say it. As a result of the strain within the church because of the election of a gay bishop many Episcopalians have started separating out and starting churches that are not Episcopalian but American Anglican churches, this way they do not have to be connected with the leftist theology that is dominating the Episcopal church. I predict that with this statement we will see American Episcopalian churches much more and that within 50 years the Episcopal church is dead and merely a footnote in history books. It's very sad, because church unity is so important.