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Article: How to be Anglican.(Lambeth Conference)
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- The Christian Century
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- May 20, 2008
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EVERY TEN YEARS bishops of the worldwide Anglican Communion assemble in England for the Lambeth Conference. This summer's meeting is much awaited in light of the 77-million-member communion's highly public wrangling over the issue of homosexuality.
In 2003, the Episcopal Church in the U.S. approved the election of V. Gene Robinson, an openly gay man, as bishop of New Hampshire. That action galvanized many conservatives, who pointed to a 1998 Lambeth Conference resolution that declared homosexual practice "incompatible with scripture" and said that the blessing of same-sex unions and the ordination of those in homosexual relationships are illegitimate.
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