From the AAC Report

This is from the report mentioned by Archbishop Akinola in a letter to the ABC that is posted below. Thanks to Stand Firm for pulling these items from the report. ed.

In the following sections we describe how the leadership of The Episcopal Church has been systematically destroying the foundations of Anglican Christianity within the United States, and tearing the fabric of the Anglican Communion to shreds. Through the following sections, we will demonstrate, through the words of TEC leaders, their actions and their defiance of both the Bible and the instruments of Anglican unity, why orthodox Anglicans in North America were led to form the Anglican Church in North America in order to preserve and promote an Anglicanism that is truly Biblical, missionary and united.

Catalogue of Heresies
Quoting Episcopal Church leaders denying Jesus as the only way to the Father, denying the divinity and uniqueness of Jesus Christ, denying the Resurrection, denying heaven and hell, denying salvation through the cross of Jesus Christ, denying the authority of Holy Scripture, denying the Creeds, and denying Biblical standards for human sexuality.

We also document the fruits of TEC’s new theology—which include a refusal to reaffirm the historic articles of the Christian faith, syncretism, the promotion of abortion, weakening traditional marriage, promoting same sex blessings and other sexual aberrations, communion for the unbaptized, and accelerating litigation by TEC against the orthodox.

We conclude with the heresies of the current Presiding Bishop, in her own words, an analysis that demonstrates her affirmation of the classic heresies of Pelagianism, Marcionism, Pluralism, Universalism and Gnosticism.

Declining Membership
Also a fruit of TEC’s new theology, and accelerating since the 2003 consecration of a bishop in a homosexual relationship. The statistics are taken from the Episcopal Church’s own online membership data.

Clergy Crisis
Documenting the inhibition, deposition and flight of orthodox bishops from TEC.

Canonical Abuses
How the leadership of the Episcopal Church has violated its own canons in furtherance of the new theology: including the abuse of abandonment and renunciation canons in order to inhibit and depose 10 bishops and 104 priests and deacons, and the unconstitutional assumption of power by the Presiding Bishop in dissolving a lawfully constituted Standing Committee and substituting another without warrant.

Litigation: a history of lawsuits initiated by the leadership of TEC
Documenting how TEC and its dioceses have accelerated litigation in defiant rejection of the Primates’ call for a moratorium on the same at the Dar es Salaam meeting. The 56 instances of complaints filed in court by TEC and its dioceses against individual churches, clergy and vestries demonstrate the reckless indifference to the truth by TEC bishops who, at Lambeth 2008, declared that it was TEC which was being sued by local churches.

Pictures worth a thousand words
Including pictures of an Episcopal Church cathedral where the “interfaith chapel” has no cross except one on a column under the Islamic crescent moon and star, Episcopal bishops taking partners in same sex ceremonies, and bishops participating in homosexual rights parades.

TEC non-compliance with Anglican Communion requests for moratoria on same sex blessings and consecrations to the episcopate of persons in homosexual relationships

Documenting chronologically diocesan resolutions which defy Anglican Communion calls for moratoria on same sex blessings and consecrations to the episcopate of persons in homosexual relationships by (1) calling for the repeal of General Convention 2006 resolution B033, (2) weakening the definition of traditional Christian marriage, and (3) promoting the creation of rites for same-sex blessings.

Churches that have left the Episcopal Church since 2003
Documenting chronologically the departure of 312 congregations that have either split or withdrawn from TEC.


This document is superb--excellent work all around--a must read. And to top it off the AAC even added a final section before publishing online...a daily diary of TEC actions during the Primates' Meeting

JANUARY 30 – FEBRUARY 8, 2009
TEC & ACoC ACTIONS LEADING UP TO AND DURING THE PRIMATES’ MEETING IN
ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT

• January 30 - TEC Executive Council approved a draft budget for 2010-2012 which eliminated the budget line item of 0.7 percent spending for Millennium Development Goals ($924,000 was allocated in the previous budget), noting that MDG-related ministries are supported in other line items of the budget. Executive Council also established Trust Fund # 1033, The St. Ives Fund, to support nonbudgetary legal expenses and decided to lend the Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin up to $500,000 for use "in their protection of diocesan properties" (lawsuits).

• January 30 - TEC Executive Council also submitted their response to the St Andrews Draft of the Anglican Covenant, noting that if constitutional changes are required, final consideration will not be until General Convention 2015 (lines 130-134). The Presiding Bishop stated in Oct. 2008 that she will "strongly discourage" any effort to consider or approve the Covenant during the July 2009 General Convention because there is not enough time to study the final draft after the Anglican Consultative Council meets and releases it at the beginning of May. Proposed General Convention resolutions will be released as part of the General Convention Blue Book sometime in April and
additional resolutions can be accepted as late as the second day of General Convention, calling into question the Presiding Bishop's assertion that there is not enough time to consider the Anglican Covenant at the upcoming General Convention.

• January 30 - TEC’s commentary on the draft covenant expressed concern by the vast majority of diocesan deputations regarding “what was perceived as an embrace of binding arbitration, mediation and evaluation, as well as “moral authority.” (lines 153-155) This calls into question TEC’s willingness to participate in (and abide by the recommendations of) the professional mediation called for in the Alexandria Communiqué.

• January 31 - The Anglican Church of Canada‘s Bishop of Toronto, Colin Johnson, announced that his diocese would begin blessing same-sex relationships within a year and that this innovation was in keeping with a Canadian House of Bishops statement in 2007 calling for "the most generous pastoral response possible within the current teachings of the church" on same-sex blessings.

• February 3 - The Episcopal Diocese of Virginia and TEC filed formal notice of its intent to appeal a Fairfax County Circuit Court decision issued in January which ruled in 20 actions initiated by TEC that 11 congregations that disaffiliated from The Episcopal Church were the rightful owners of the local church property under Virginia law. The decision handed down by the judge was carefully and thoroughly supported. The lawsuit has already cost both sides more than $5 million and the potential for TEC to win an appeal is very low.

• February 3 - The Episcopal Church’s Presiding Bishop hired a personal litigator as her special counselor. This new hire is an addition to the Presiding Bishop’s existing legal team....