Fears for Anglican Communion Continue over California Gay Bishop Nominees
Controversy continues in the Anglican Communion following the inclusion of two openly gay candidates on the shortlist for the next Bishop of California.
Posted: Friday, March 17 , 2006, 10:31 (UK)

Turmoil continues to reign over the Anglican Communion following the announcement last month of openly gay candidates on the shortlist for the next Bishop of California.

In defiance of the recommendations of the Windsor Report, which called for a moratorium on the appointment of gay bishops in the Anglican Communion, the Diocese of California took the highly controversial step of including the Very Rev Robert Taylor, the openly gay Dean of Seattle, and the lesbian Rev. Bonnie Perry, Rector of All Saints’ Church in Chicago, on the list of nominees up for election in May.

The Rev. Nick Wynne-Jones, the secretary of the Church of England Evangelical Council, came out at the weekend to condemn the inclusion of the two actively homosexual candidates as both “provocative” and “in defiance” of the wishes of the rest of the Anglican Church.

“It just seems that they are determined to pursue their own particular agenda," he said. "If they persist in that line it seriously jeopardises the future of the Anglican Communion as it's currently constituted. the rest