Episcopalians face ultimatum in Anglican civil war
By David C. Steinmetz
The Orlando Sentinel
Wed, Mar. 07, 2007

The civil war in the 77 million-member Anglican Communion over human sexuality and biblical authority entered what appears to be a new and decisive stage at a meeting of the Anglican primates - or chief presiding officers - on Feb. 14-19 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

The war was ignited in 2003 by the decision of the American branch (known as the Episcopal Church) to consecrate as the new bishop of New Hampshire a divorced man living in an openly gay relationship with his male partner. A large part of the worldwide Anglican Communion consecrated neither divorced nor gay men as bishops and therefore balked at his election.

Conservative Anglicans were further outraged when the American church took steps to authorize the blessing of same-sex unions, a move that admittedly contradicted traditional Christian sexual morality. the rest