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Gay Row - Ugandan Bishops
Boycott UK Conference
15 Feb 2008- Kampala, Uganda- Bishop
in Uganda on Wednesday announced a boycott of the July Lambeth conference - a
gathering which brings together Bishops of the Anglican Communion from all 38
Provinces of the Communion every 10 years.
The Bishops are protesting the Church's
tolerance towards homosexuality.
Announcing the boycott, Archbishop Henry
Luke Orombi said in a statement that Uganda's action has been prompted by the
invitation of bishops of The US Episcopal Church (TEC) who in 2003 elected as
Bishop Gene Robinson, a divorced man living in an active homosexual
relationship.
"...the Church of Uganda has resolved that
they will not be participating in the Lambeth Conference to be held in July 2008
in Canterbury, England.
This decision has been made to protest the
invitations extended by the Archbishop of Canterbury, The Most Rev. and Rt. Hon.
Rowan Williams, to TEC Bishops whose stand and unrepentant actions created the
current crisis of identity and authority in the Anglican Communion."
Rev. Orombi said the Archbishops of all the
38 Provinces of the Anglican Communion strongly opposed the election of Gene
Robinson as bishop - and in a meeting shortly after the election "warned that,
if they proceeded with the consecration, their action would "tear the fabric of
the Anglican Communion at its deepest level."
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