(Church of Uganda News)<\/p>\n
The Episcopal Church USA (TEC) has clarified its commitment to continue on their path to abandon the Biblical and historic faith of Anglicanism. They, in fact, have decided to walk apart, and we are distressed that they are trying to take the rest of the Anglican Communion with them.<\/p>\n
We cannot take seriously a statement from TEC that merely pledges \u201cas a body\u201d\u009d to not do something. TEC betrayed the Anglican Communion when it elected and confirmed as bishop a divorced man living in a same-sex relationship. We were further betrayed when its Presiding Bishop agreed to the Communiqu\u00c3\u00a9 from the 2003 emergency Primates\u2019 Meeting that he deeply regretted the \u201cactions of the\u201d\u00a6Episcopal Church (USA),\u201d\u009d and immediately proceeded to assert at a press conference that he would preside at that consecration. He then explained that the Primates believed their statement \u201cas a body,\u201d\u009d but individual primates were free to disagree.<\/p>\n
Now, TEC has told us that they pledge \u201cas a body\u201d\u009d not to \u201cauthorize public rites for the blessing of same-sex unions.\u201d\u009d We have every reason to believe that individual bishops will feel free to disagree and continue to permit blessings of same-sex unions in their dioceses, rationalizing it as part of the breadth of their pastoral response, and all the while denying their complicity. This is unacceptable.<\/p>\n
TEC has lost the right to give assurances of their direction as a church through more words and statements. They write one thing and do another. We, therefore, cannot know what they mean by their words until we see their meaning demonstrated by their actions.<\/p>\n
–The Most Rev. Henry Orombi
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(Church of Uganda News) The Episcopal Church USA (TEC) has clarified its commitment to continue on their path to abandon the Biblical and historic faith of Anglicanism. They, in fact, have decided to walk apart, and we are distressed that…<\/span><\/p>\n