Episcopal leader`s gay stance irks flock
Oct 31, 2006

NEW YORK, NY, United States (UPI) -- The new leader of the Episcopal Church has revealed a part of her agenda with letters written to two out-of-favor bishops.

Katharine Jefferts Schori is days away from becoming the leader of the left-wing denomination, whose promotion of homosexuality has put it at odds with most of the 77-million member worldwide Anglican communion. Most of that 450-year-old church refuses to accept the Episcopal denomination`s promotion of homosexuality. The Episcopal denomination is regarded, currently, as the U.S. province of the Anglican Church.

The election this summer of Schori, an active supporter of consecrating homosexuals as bishops and same-sex marriage, to Episcopalianism`s top job has prompted numerous bishops and their dioceses to seek alternative spiritual oversight from the Anglican Communion`s nominal head, England`s Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams. the rest