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Last update - 06:02 30/06/2008 In Jerusalem, conservative Anglicans fight gay ordination By Haaretz Staff Tags: Anglican church, Jerusaelm  A group of conservative Anglicans resolved on Sunday during a conference in Jerusalem to establish a worldwide network to fight the modernizing trends in the worldwide Anglican Communion, such as the ordination of homosexual and lesbian clergy. The group, which adopted the program on the last day of the Global Anglican Future Conference, decided to sever relations with the liberal wings of the church in the United States and Canada, the BBC reported on Sunday, and to adhere to its own theological principles and maintain its own council of archbishops. However, the move falls short of a total rift, since the conservative Anglicans also resolved to remain within the Anglican Communion, a worldwide affiliation of Anglican churches. Advertisement "A major realignment has occurred and will continue to unfold," the group said in a statement. The statement also said the group respected the Anglican heritage and would remain within it. But the release added: "We grieve for the spiritual decline in the most economically developed nations, where the forces of militant secularism and pluralism are eating away the fabric of society and churches are compromised and enfeebled in their witness." The conservative wing's initiative stressed its independence from the archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, whom it repeatedly criticized for his weakness in not reining in the Episcopal Church in the United States. The group said it would no longer recognize him as the leader of Anglicans worldwide. The conservatives said they are struggling against a "false gospel" that "promotes a variety of sexual preferences and immoral behavior as a universal human right," the statement said. The group says the gap between its views and that of the other wings of the church has become unbridgeable, after five years of failed efforts to expel the Episcopal Church for agreeing to ordain homosexual clergy and sanction same-sex marriage. The conservative Anglicans say the new world body will interpret the Scriptures more strictly to counteract what they called "the manifest failure" of the more liberal wings "to exercise discipline in the face of overt heterodoxy." The divide among Anglicans over scriptural interpretation has been widening since the Episcopal Church appointed its first homosexual bishop, Gene Robinson, in 2003. What are 300 Anglican clergy doing in J'lem? The archbishop's advice Archbishop of Canterbury to visit Israel, meet chief rabbis Bookmark to del.icio.us   Wimbledon shocker Shahar Peer knocks out 9th-seed Safina to slide into the fourth round. Time to hit Iran Israel must destroy Iran's nuclear program within one year or risk being attacked.   1.   Conservative Anglicans. 09:04  |  Maureen Ann 30/06/08   2.   ABSOLUTELY CORRECT IN GRIEVING FOR THE MORAL DECAY OF THE TWO 16:21  |  glenna 30/06/08   3.   Anglicans and Catholics difference: sex and Pope 17:30  |  Ulf 30/06/08

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