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Fort Worth delegates vote to leave Episcopal Church, re... - 11/17/2008 1:06:38 AM
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purnhart
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Story at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_102536_ENG_HTM.htm and http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/us/16episcopal.html?_r=1&oref=slogin.
The Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth on Saturday became the latest to break with the national church over a dispute that involves the ordination of an openly gay bishop, with clergy members and lay leaders voting overwhelmingly to align itself with a South American province.
Bishop Jack L. Iker laid blame for the split on what he described as “a church that is increasingly unfaithful and disobedient to the word of God, a church that has caused division and dissension both at home and abroad, a church that has torn the fabric of the communion at its deepest level, a church that acts more and more like a rebellious protestant sect and less and less like an integral part of the one holy catholic and apostolic church. It is time to say enough is enough.”
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RE: Fort Worth delegates vote to leave Episcopal Church... - 11/18/2008 9:33:59 AM
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Rockwall
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I thought this was interesting from the NYT link:
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The Fort Worth diocese, formed in 1982 as a spinoff of the Dallas diocese, is one of three that refuse to ordain women as priests, a practice the national church voted to accept in 1976.
So an openly-gay bishop is accepted by some yet a female priest is not accepted?
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RE: Fort Worth delegates vote to leave Episcopal Church... - 11/19/2008 12:55:25 PM
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purnhart
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Ft. Worth was one of only 3 diocese that did not accept women priests. The openly gay bishop is why they are finely leaving. The straw that broke the camels back, as it were.
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