The spiritual leader of the global Anglican Communion issued an unusually sharp and swift rebuke to Episcopal Church leaders over the election of an openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles.
In a terse statement, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams delivered a warning to bishops, clergy and lay representatives of the U.S. church about the confirmation of the Rev. Canon Mary D. Glasspool, a lesbian who has been in a partnered relationship for two decades.
Glasspool must still gain a majority of votes from bishops and standing committees of clergy and lay leaders in the Episcopal Church, the U.S. branch of the worldwide communion. That voting process will unfold over the next four months as U.S. leaders consider Glasspool and another priest, the Rev. Canon Diane M. Jardine Bruce, who was picked for a second “suffragan,” or assistant bishop post in Los Angeles.
The audio of the ABC actually delivering his “rebuke” may be heard at the blog post below on the BBCWS.
If that were only true… where do they make up this stuff?
#1 Br_er – I think from the voice it was Christopher Landau, religion correspondent for the BBC reading Rowan’s words for the radio.
Wow, thanks, Pagentmaster. I had gone back and listened to the audio a second time but I missed any sense of the audio being attributed to anyone but Rowan.