Episcopalians Told: 'Choose You This Day Whom You Will Follow'
by Pete Winn, associate editor

Episcopal Church USA conference considers whether to elect more gay leaders.

Leaders of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America (ECUSA), meeting this week in general convention at Columbus, Ohio, are poised to decide whether the denomination will swear-off installing any more gay bishops -- in an attempt to appease the mother church, the nearly 80-million strong Worldwide Anglican Communion.

Bishops of the Anglican Communion have asked the American church to express regret -- "repentance" -- for installing in 2003 Bishop V. Gene Robinson, as the first openly gay bishop in the church's history. The communion is also asking ECUSA to not do it again.

Is the American church repentant?

"Absolutely not," The Rev. Canon David Anderson of the American Anglican Council told CitizenLink. "They are committed to their trajectory of heading further and further away from historic Christianity and into things that are culturally derived." the rest