'Two-track' church blast.THE first openly gay bishop in the Anglican communion Anglican Communion, the body of churches in all parts of the world that are in communion with the Church of England (see England, Church of). The communion is composed of regional churches, provinces, and separate dioceses bound together by mutual loyalty as has blasted the Archbishop of Canterbury's suggestion of a possible "two-track" church. Gene Robinson, Episcopalian bishop of New Hampshire New Hampshire, one of the New England states of the NE United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts (S), Vermont, with the Connecticut R. forming the boundary (W), the Canadian province of Quebec (NW), and Maine and a short strip of the Atlantic Ocean (E). , said: "I can't imagine anything that would be more abhorrent to Jesus than a two-tier church. "Either we are children of God and brothers and sisters in Christ, or we aren't." Dr Rowan Williams talked of a "two-track" church in order to deal with divisions over homosexuality within the worldwide Anglican Communion. |
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