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Perhaps one of the reasons for the fracture is that Anglicans are also fighting the good fight regarding the "gay" issue. Overly simplistic to be sure, but once more no one is prepared to exercise godly discipline on the Episcopal Church for its blatant defiance of the Windsor Report and a Covenant in the process of being ratified by all the provinces of the Anglican Communion over sexuality issues which has seen TEC defy the communion not once, but twice by electing an avowed homosexual and lesbian to the episcopacy.
The open defiance of the communion?s requested Moratorium on the subject is met with muted outrage as no one is prepared to put their foot down and lay down the law, largely because the communion?s Instruments of Unity are stacked with liberals and token orthodox believers who get shot down if they should so much as raise their voices.
Groaned one English cleric, ?Why, oh why, oh why is TEC permitted to retain such influence in a Communion in which it is an insignificant flea on the rump of the orthodox majority?? (BTW -TEC stands for the Episcopalian Communion)
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