Thursday, August 18, 2011

10 Reasons Why the Global South Should Not Assent to TEC on Pansexuality

Ten Reasons Why the Anglican Global South Should Not Assent to the Episcopal Church on Pansexuality

COMMENTARY

By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
August 18, 2011

It is becoming clearer by the month that the great divide between the Anglican Global South and Western pan-Anglicanism has become unbridgeable and the divisions irreconcilable.

The new Anglican Reformation, begun more than a decade ago by the Anglican Mission in the Americas and, later, with the establishment of the Anglican Church in North America, is a fait accompli. There is no going back, no reversing and no stopping the train. It has left Kansas never to return.

The Episcopal Church continues to pay lip service to unity (along with the Archbishop of Canterbury), but the truth is that Global South archbishops and bishops move freely in and out of North America without so much as a phone call to 815 2nd street in New York, New York or 80 Hayden Street, Toronto, Ontario (the Anglican Church of Canada HQ). The final statement of disassociation was the empty Primatial chairs in Dublin, earlier this year.

Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org

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