Monday, November 14, 2005

U.S. Anglicans called to 'repent'
By Julia Duin
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
November 12, 2005

PITTSBURGH -- Overseas Anglican archbishops told about 2,500 Episcopalians meeting in Pittsburgh yesterday they might have to leave the Episcopal Church unless its leaders "repent" at the church's General Convention next June for consecrating an openly homosexual bishop.

If Episcopal leaders refuse to back off from the 2003 installation of Bishop V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, the prelates said they might boycott the 2008 conference of the world's Anglican bishops. The mood at the David C. Lawrence Convention Center -- the site of the three-day Hope and a Future Conference sponsored by the Anglican Communion Network -- ranged from upbeat to dire as the foreign archbishops exhorted conservatives to hang tough.
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