Chris Talks About Religious News

8 Random Items for 12/4/2008 #4

Well, there's a major split that appears to be taking place in the Anglican church. A splinter group of North American churches is forming a new province of the religion, based on theology rather than geography, which is a first for Anglicanism. The reason, according to a spokesman for Common Cause Partnership, is that ...

Anglicanism is a beautiful thing. Here in America it got on a track that was taking it farther and farther away from its core beliefs. We're attempting to return to that.

The core belief? Hatred of the gays. The church was moving away from that hatred, even going as far as to ordain an openly gay minister in New Hampshire. It appears that bigotry is alive and well in the conservative Anglican churches. Color me surprised.