From Crosswalk.com : The intersection of faith and life
(CNSNews.com) - An openly homosexual Episcopal bishop from New Hampshire Wednesday asserted that the "500-year experiment in Anglicanism is being tested right now." The election and consecration of Bishop Gene Robinson in 2003 prompted some Episcopal parishes in the U.S. to leave the worldwide Anglican Church.
During a panel discussion hosted Wednesday by the Washington Region for Justice and Inclusion in Washington, D.C., Robinson said "you see a mainline denomination risking its life for some people on the margins."
"It is my great privilege to be a small part of that," he added.
(But, The American Anglican Council President, newly transferred to the Anglican Church of Nigeria, David Anderson, never one to shy away from spinning a story or turning a phrase said this: "His name will become synonymous with schism,")
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