Gay bishop takes message to Lambeth under guard
Posted by africanpress on July 30, 2008
Bishop Gene Robinson from the U.S. the only openly gay bishop in the Anglican church reacts as he chats with someone at a stall during a tour of the “market place”, a collection of stalls run by Christian organizations on the fringes of the Lambeth Conference in Cantebury, southern England July 21, 2008. Robinson has been barred from attending the Lambeth conference, a meeting of bishops of the Anglican faith held once every 10 years, but is taking part in activities on the sidelines of the meeting. REUTERS/Andrew Winning (BRITAIN)
But he is there, talking to his colleagues, although he cannot participate in formal meetings.\
“I would rather be on the inside,” he told The Washington Post. “It’s never OK to be relegated to the fringe by someone.”
Robinson’s 2003 consecration as bishop of New Hampshire has threatened to split the Anglican Communion, a loose confederation of national churches headed by Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury, and the US. church.
More than 200 bishops, including many from Africa, stayed away from Lambeth, and some churches and dioceses in the US and Canada have put themselves under African and South American bishops.
Robinson said he hopes to convince more people it is possible to be “unabashedly gay and unabashedly Christian.” (Agencies)
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