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Silvia Spring
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Aug 31, 2007 09:41 AM
Not everyone was celebrating when Bill Murdoch and Bill Atwood were consecrated as Anglican bishops on Thursday at Nairobi's All Saints Cathedral. Well, certainly not anyone in favor of a united Anglican Commune anyway. The two American priests' decision to become bishops in Kenya signals not only their opposition to gays in the episcopal hierarchy but also a deepening division in the already fragile Anglican Church between its conservative African and liberal American branches, which have rowed ever since the U.S. consecrated its first openly gay bishop, Gene Robinson, in 2003. Even at the consecration, there was no mistaking exactly what had motivated the American priests to travel to Africa. Archbishop Benjamin Nzimbi said of gays, "We need to love them we need to preach to them, but not to make them lay readers, pastors, bishops."
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