FURY AS LESBIAN IS CHOSEN BY ANGLICAN CHURCH TO BE A BISHOP

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By Jonathan Petre
06th December 2009

The worldwide Anglican Church has been plunged into a fresh crisis after a lesbian was chosen as its second gay bishop.

In a move that will dismay the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, Canon Mary Glasspool was elected as an assistant bishop for the diocese of Los Angeles.

The Rev Rod Thomas, the leader of the conservative evangelical group Reform and a member of the General Synod, said: ‘I feel deeply ashamed that this is happening in the Anglican Church.

‘I think a schism is absolutely inevitable.’

But St Paul’s Cathedral’s Canon Chancellor Giles Fraser, a leading liberal, said: ‘This is another nail in the coffin of Christian homophobia.’

Canon Glasspool, 55, has openly stated that she has lived with her partner, Becki Sander, since 1988.

American Gene Robinson became the first gay Anglican bishop in 2003.

[Leila25]

Christians have turned Christianity into a joke, the Bible is clear on homosexuality yet people want to liberalise it, which will eventually lead to its demise.

[Pirate Nayaa]

Christians have turned Christianity into a joke, the Bible is clear on homosexuality yet people want to liberalise it, which will eventually lead to its demise.

says the famous snet atheist