Possible schism within the Anglican Church

Contention over homosexuality is threatening to split the Anglican Church. The Guardian newspaper comments: "The coming weeks will determine whether the communion is any longer the viable and meaningful body of churches and believers that it once was. ... Over the past half century, civil society in many parts of the world, including ours, has broken free from the long tradition of hostility and discrimination against gay people - and both society and individual lives are immeasurably the better for it. Now, inevitably and rightly, the same process is taking place in the churches, with pressure for the election of openly gay clergy and bishops and the blessing of same-sex unions. ... The question facing Anglicans - and facing other religious groups too - is whether theirs is a faith that is loving enough to treat gay people as equals. If the communion cannot hold together in the face of this question, then so be it."

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