In rejecting efforts by the larger Anglican community to preserve orthodoxy Christian teaching and minister to those who have fidelity for it, the Episcopal Church is likely to be expelled from worldwide Anglicanism.

Responding to an ultimatum from the leaders of the worldwide Anglican Communion, bishops of the Episcopal Church have rejected a key demand to create a parallel leadership structure to serve the conservative minority of Episcopalians who oppose their churchÂ’s liberal stand on homosexuality.

The bishops, meeting at a retreat center outside of Houston, said they were aware that their decision could lead to the exclusion of the Episcopal Church from the Anglican Communion, an international confederation of churches tied to the Church of England.

The bishops have a “deep longing” to remain part of the Communion, they said, but they are unwilling to compromise the Episcopal Church’s autonomy and its commitment to full equality for all people, including gay men and lesbians.

Given their willingness to compromise teh Gospel instead, it is time for folks to recognize the reality that the ECUSA is a post-Christian denomination.

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