Bay State ECUSA Bishop Draws Conservative Anglican Condemnation
Canon Decries Massachusetts Cleric's Involvement in Same-Sex 'Wedding' Celebration
By Jim Brown
December 6, 2005

(AgapePress) - A conservative Anglican theologian is denouncing the Episcopal Bishop of Massachusetts, Bishop Thomas Shaw, for presiding over a so-called "nuptial mass" for a homosexual couple immediately after their "wedding." Shaw recently celebrated the Eucharist, the Episcopal rite of Holy Communion, at the same-sex wedding of two men who, reportedly, had their first date in a monastery.

According to Anglican insider David Virtue, Bishop Shaw is "a leading contender to replace Frank Griswold as Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church." But Anglican theologian Dr. Kendall Harmon says the Massachusetts church leader has chosen to ignore a document addressing the crisis in the worldwide Anglican Communion, the "Windsor Report," which calls on the Episcopal Church to stop blessing same-sex unions.

"The Bishop of Massachusetts, by doing this, is again showing tremendous disrespect for the rest of the Anglican Communion, who have been pleading for restraint on the part of the Episcopal Church," Harmon says. "It's just another example of the Western arrogance that is underneath so much of the Episcopal Church's actions, and they're making a bad situation much worse." The rest