{"id":159,"date":"2010-06-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/06\/anglican-episcopalian-rift-festers-over-gay-clergy-lgbt-rights.html"},"modified":"2010-06-10T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T12:00:00","slug":"anglican-episcopalian-rift-festers-over-gay-clergy-lgbt-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/06\/anglican-episcopalian-rift-festers-over-gay-clergy-lgbt-rights.html","title":{"rendered":"Anglican, Episcopalian Rift Widens Over Gay Clergy (But Not LGBT Rights?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Updated&nbsp;on 6\/11&nbsp;to reflect <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getreligion.org\/?p=35716\">GetReligion&#8217;s correction that Senyonjo is a former, not current, Anglican bishop.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;Anglican Communion&#8217;s objection to the ordination of openly gay bishops by America&#8217;s Episcopalian branch has&nbsp;made headlines again this week, as the Episcopal Church in the United States has now been suspended from participating in ecumenical dialogues.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, former Anglican Bishop Christopher Senyonjo and current New Hampshire&#8217;s Rt. Rev. Gene Robinson (the Episcopal Church&#8217;s first openly gay bishop) <a href=\"http:\/\/walkingwithintegrity.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/bishop-senyonjo-to-visit-white-house.html\">have been meeting with White House officials<\/a> to&nbsp;share their grave&nbsp;concerns over the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/05\/american-evangelical-influence-uganda-anti-gay-bill.html\">harsh anti-gay bill&nbsp;under consideration in Uganda<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more on the growing&nbsp;Anglican-Episcopal divide over the gay clergy issue &#8212;&nbsp;if that&#8217;s what this is all really about? &#8212;&nbsp;check out these links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100608\/ap_on_re_eu\/eu_britain_anglicans\">Anglicans cut Episcopalians from ecumenical bodies<\/a>&nbsp;(Associated Press)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.episcopalchurch.org\/79425_122744_ENG_HTM.htm\">Presiding bishop describes Canterbury&#8217;s sanctions as &#8216;unfortunate&#8217;<\/a>&nbsp;(Episcopal Life Online)<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/christianityfortherestofus\/2010\/06\/rowan-williams-and-katharine-jefferts-schori-anglican-smack-down.html\">Rowan Williams and Katharine Jefferts Schori: Anglican Smack-Down <\/a>(Diana Butler Bass, for Beliefnet&#8217;s Christianity for the Rest of Us blog)<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/article\/sanctions.carried.out.against.us.episcopalians\/26069.htm\">Sanctions carried out against US Episcopalians <\/a>(Christian Today)<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What do you think? Share your thoughts in the Comments section below.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">*<a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>subscribe to Belief Beat<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/a>and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>follow Belief Beat on Twitter<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated&nbsp;on 6\/11&nbsp;to reflect GetReligion&#8217;s correction that Senyonjo is a former, not current, Anglican bishop. The&nbsp;Anglican Communion&#8217;s objection to the ordination of openly gay bishops by America&#8217;s Episcopalian branch has&nbsp;made headlines again this week, as the Episcopal Church in the United States has now been suspended from participating in ecumenical dialogues. Nevertheless, former Anglican Bishop Christopher&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Anglican, Episcopalian Rift Widens Over Gay Clergy (But Not LGBT Rights?) - Belief Beat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/06\/anglican-episcopalian-rift-festers-over-gay-clergy-lgbt-rights.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Anglican, Episcopalian Rift Widens Over Gay Clergy (But Not LGBT Rights?) - Belief Beat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Updated&nbsp;on 6\/11&nbsp;to reflect GetReligion&#8217;s correction that Senyonjo is a former, not current, Anglican bishop. 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