Conservative bishops propose a competing North American Anglican church

Recent moves within the American Anglicanism, like recognizing an openly gay bishop, lead some traditionalists to set up a new church.
By Jane Lampman
Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
from the December 3, 2008 edition

Five years after the Episcopal Church consecrated the first openly gay bishop, traditionalists are moving to create a separate and competing North American Anglican church.

On Wednesday, a network of groups from the United States and Canada will unveil a draft constitution for a unified entity that they hope will be recognized by Anglicans elsewhere in the world. They were encouraged to take this step by a group of leaders in the global Anglican Communion who say the Episcopal Church (TEC) – the US branch of Anglicanism – has abandoned traditional Christian teaching and practice.

"This has been our aim since 2004, and it's been the call of the [conservative global leaders] that it was time for the rest of the Anglican world to recognize an orthodox province here in the States," says Bishop Robert Duncan of Pittsburgh, who heads the network. the rest