Mary Glasspool, 56, was ordained yesterday in front of 3,000 supporters ”” and two protesters ”” in the Long Beach Arena, south of Los Angeles.
Calling herself a “reconciling person”, she offered to “reach out and engage with people who believe or think differently than I do”, but her appointment has already tested the Episcopal Church’s ties to the Church of England almost to breaking point.
Hoping to retain the allegiance of conservatives still furious over the ordination of Gene Robinson, the first gay Anglican bishop, in 2003, Dr Williams has said that Canon Glasspool’s ordination “raises very serious questions not just for the Episcopalian Church and its place in the Anglican Communion, but for the Communion as a whole”. He declined to comment on the ordination.
A spokesman for the Church of Ireland called the appointment “both wrong and disappointing”.
One cannot be simultaneously the cause of discord and its resolution.
It is just so incredibly sad to me to see the Anglican Communion, once an international association of Anglicans of good will and faith for good mission in the name of Jesus throughout the world, shot to pieces due to the continuing success of the long-conspired takeover of my own province by biblical scofflaws and moral irregulars who love to celebrate themselves – because no else will – prophets for a new age.
Could somebody get a gun and put the Anglican Communion out of its misery? Reading stuff like this is humiliating