Conservative Anglican Group: Regardless Who Is Next Presiding Bishop, ECUSA Loses
By Jim Brown
February 1, 2006

AgapePress) - A conservative Anglican group says the four bishops who have been nominated to be the Episcopal Church USA's new leader are "committed theological revisionists." None of them, says the group, are willing to adhere to the authority of scripture or lead the denomination towards repentance.

Bishop Henry Parsley of Alabama is the only nominee who voted against the 2003 ordination of the denomination's first openly homosexual bishop, V. Gene Robinson -- a move which has alienated conservative Episcopalians and Anglicans worldwide. The other nominees are Bishop J. Neil Alexander of Atlanta, Bishop Edwin Gulick of Kentucky, and Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori of Las Vegas. Schori is the first woman nominated to head ECUSA. The American Anglican Council (AAC) says it is "deeply disturbed" that none on the slate of candidates is "representative of orthodox Anglicanism."

Cynthia Brust with the AAC says the three who voted to consecrate the homosexual bishop more than two years ago also voted against a resolution to affirm the authority of scripture and other basic tenets of the Christian faith. And Parsley's actions, she asserts, "belie his claims of orthodoxy." The rest