From Columbus-
The Episcopal Church, an American branch of the worldwide
Anglican Communion, consecrated its first openly gay bishop in 2003. It
passed a resolution in 2009 that “God’s call is open to all,”
eradicating discriminatory barriers to the election of bishops. And in
2015, the church decided as a denomination to perform same-sex
marriages.
Individuals, churches and entire dioceses left
and formed new American denominations. They joined the worldwide
Anglican church, which doesn’t support same-sex marriage or ordination
of openly gay preachers.
“The Methodist Church is not
going through something new ... The Methodist Church is going through
what the Episcopal Church went through 15 years ago,” said the Rev. Paul
Williams, rector at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Pickerington.
“They’re following a path many have gone through, and they’ll be OK.”
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