From Episcopal Life Online-
Anglican Archbishop Alan Harper has expressed his "deep regret" that the U.S.-based Episcopal Church has given its consent to the election of Los Angeles Bishop-elect Mary Glasspool.
The decision, Harper said in a statement to the Church of Ireland Gazette, "does not reflect the mind of a majority of those in positions of leadership in the Anglican Communion and it is bound to create even greater stresses within the communion at a time when consultations on an Anglican covenant are at an advanced stage."
Glasspool is the second openly gay partnered priest to be elected a bishop in the Episcopal Church. The first was Bishop Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, who was elected in 2003. Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori's office on March 17 confirmed that Glasspool had received the required number of consents from diocesan standing committees and bishops with jurisdiction to her ordination and consecration as a bishop.
The Anglican covenant to which Harper refers was first cited in the 2004 Windsor Report, a document that made several recommendations on how the communion might maintain unity amid disagreements over theological interpretations and human sexuality issues. The covenant is currently in its final draft and has been sent to the communion's 38 provinces for formal consideration.
Harper noted that the Windsor Report had recommended that the Episcopal Church "be invited to effect a moratorium on the election and consent to the consecration of any candidate to the episcopate who is living in a same-gender union until some new consensus in the Anglican Communion emerges."
That recommendation, he added, was reiterated at successive Primates Meetings, and most recently with a request in February 2009 for "gracious restraint" in respect of actions that endanger the unity of the Anglican Communion.
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