'Boston tea party' as US radicals defy Canterbury
From James Bone in Columbus, Ohio
June 21, 2006

The Episcopal Church delivered a resounding rebuff to the Archbishop of Canterbury last night by rejecting calls for a moratorium on the consecration of gay bishops.

The vote increased the likelihood of a schism in the worldwide Anglican communion over the place of homosexuals in the Church.

Traditionalists described the decision by the American church’s three-yearly convention as a clear rebellion against the Anglican hierarchy, which had appealed for a ban on gay bishops after the 2003 consecration of an openly gay bishop in New Hampshire.

Bishop Robert Duncan of Pittsburgh, a leader of the traditionalist Anglican Communion Network, compared the decision to America’s revolt against British colonial rule. “We got a Boston Tea Party,” he told The Times. the rest