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    The senior leadership of the Church of England (Anglican church) has voted to reject a report from the House of Bishops that endorsed the traditional Christian teaching on homosexuality. The House of Laity had also voted to endorse the report.

    This situation seems untenable. I imagine some sort of split may be in the future. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-38982013
    "I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill

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    Ugh more headaches and rogue clergy.

    "Fire is catching. If we burn, you burn with us!"
    "I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to stay here and cause all kinds of trouble."
    Katniss Everdeen


    Christ our Passover has been sacrificed for us. Therefore let us keep the feast.

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    • #3
      This actually has some relevance to me. I have been considering jumping over to the Anglican side but don't think I could get in good conscience if senior leadership gets something like this so obviously wrong. (This is also why I'm not Catholic, for several other reasons...)
      "I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill

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      • #4
        Wow... that's sad.
        That's what
        - She

        Without a clear-cut definition of sin, morality becomes a mere argument over the best way to train animals
        - Manya the Holy Szin (The Quintara Marathon)

        I may not be as old as dirt, but me and dirt are starting to have an awful lot in common
        - Stephen R. Donaldson

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        • #5
          Originally posted by KingsGambit View Post
          This actually has some relevance to me. I have been considering jumping over to the Anglican side but don't think I could get in good conscience if senior leadership gets something like this so obviously wrong. (This is also why I'm not Catholic, for several other reasons...)
          I mean, I'm a part of ACNA which is breakaway already because of stuff like this. We are in fellowship with the global south, which is overwhelmingly orthodox.

          ETA: bishops are technically the most senior, and they're dominated by the orthodox. This is primarily an issue of rogue rectors, who are becoming increasingly irrelevant.
          Last edited by thewriteranon; 02-16-2017, 10:04 AM.

          "Fire is catching. If we burn, you burn with us!"
          "I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to stay here and cause all kinds of trouble."
          Katniss Everdeen


          Christ our Passover has been sacrificed for us. Therefore let us keep the feast.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by KingsGambit View Post
            This actually has some relevance to me. I have been considering jumping over to the Anglican side but don't think I could get in good conscience if senior leadership gets something like this so obviously wrong. (This is also why I'm not Catholic, for several other reasons...)
            have you considered Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod ?

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            • #7
              Back when I was a Baptist, I liked the Episcopalian liturgy, but couldn't get over their errors.
              Enter the Church and wash away your sins. For here there is a hospital and not a court of law. Do not be ashamed to enter the Church; be ashamed when you sin, but not when you repent. – St. John Chrysostom

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              • #8
                Originally posted by One Bad Pig View Post
                Back when I was a Baptist, I liked the Episcopalian liturgy, but couldn't get over their errors.
                The Anglican Ordinariate celebrate the Anglican rite within the Roman Catholic Church.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Leonhard View Post
                  The Anglican Ordinariate celebrate the Anglican rite within the Roman Catholic Church.
                  And both ROCOR (authorized by St. Tikhon before he became Patriarch of Moscow) and the Antiochians have a Western Rite derived from the Anglican rite (I've visited an Antiochian Western Rite church downtown).
                  Enter the Church and wash away your sins. For here there is a hospital and not a court of law. Do not be ashamed to enter the Church; be ashamed when you sin, but not when you repent. – St. John Chrysostom

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                  • #10
                    Woah and this is after they put the Episcopal Church on timeout?? Will wonders ever cease?
                    I am Punkinhead.

                    "I have missed you, Oh Grand High Priestess of the Order of the Stirring Pot"

                    ~ Cow Poke aka CP aka Creacher aka ke7ejx's apprentice....

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by One Bad Pig View Post
                      And both ROCOR (authorized by St. Tikhon before he became Patriarch of Moscow) and the Antiochians have a Western Rite derived from the Anglican rite (I've visited an Antiochian Western Rite church downtown).

                      "Fire is catching. If we burn, you burn with us!"
                      "I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to stay here and cause all kinds of trouble."
                      Katniss Everdeen


                      Christ our Passover has been sacrificed for us. Therefore let us keep the feast.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by mikewhitney View Post
                        have you considered Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod ?
                        They're way too conservative for me.
                        "I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by One Bad Pig View Post
                          And both ROCOR (authorized by St. Tikhon before he became Patriarch of Moscow) and the Antiochians have a Western Rite derived from the Anglican rite (I've visited an Antiochian Western Rite church downtown).
                          Didn't know that, very interesting!

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Leonhard View Post
                            Didn't know that, very interesting!
                            The other Antiochian Western Rite is derived from the Latin mass.
                            Enter the Church and wash away your sins. For here there is a hospital and not a court of law. Do not be ashamed to enter the Church; be ashamed when you sin, but not when you repent. – St. John Chrysostom

                            Veritas vos Liberabit<>< Learn Greek <>< Look here for an Orthodox Church in America<><Ancient Faith Radio
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                            I recommend you do not try too hard and ...research as little as possible. Such weighty things give me a headache. - Shunyadragon, Baha'i apologist

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by KingsGambit View Post
                              They're way too conservative for me.
                              It depends on which Church. I know some that aren't really that conservative.
                              A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
                              George Bernard Shaw

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