Facing the "crippling prospect" of "worldwide inter-Anglican conflict," a commission appointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury has rebuked the Episcopal Church of the United States for ordaining Bishop Gene Robinson, a divorced gay man who lives with his lover.

* Facing the "crippling prospect" of "worldwide inter-Anglican conflict," a commission appointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury has rebuked the Episcopal Church of the United States for ordaining Bishop Gene Robinson, a divorced gay man who lives with his lover. The commission also asked conservative Third World bishops not to minister to disaffected American conservatives. The commission thus produced a very Anglican statement: It hit the pause button, in the name of consensus, not principle, and it affirmed church organization boxes. Conservative Anglicans may not long accept it: Archdeacon Oluranti Odubogun of Nigeria said, "Ordaining homosexuals is heresy, un-Biblical, should never have been done, and should be reversed." While Anglicanism in America is engaged in liberal therapy, the church in Africa is on the front lines battling AIDS and radical Islam. If the Anglican communion splits, one side will get the pretty buildings and the endowments, the other will get the energy.