THE VOICE OF CHICAGO’S GAY, LESBIAN, BI AND TRANS COMMUNITY SINCE 1985 Dec. 10, 2008 • vol 24 no 12 www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com LGBTs and the new church BY YASMIN NAIR are particularly prone to be far more socially With regard to the issue of social conserva- conservative on issues related to gender and ho- tism, Lake sees it as more than the case that The Anglican Communion has seen several mosexuality. people in Africa and Latin America are inher- rifts in the past few years, with members di- According to Robert Lundy, a spokesperson ently homophobic. “The problem is that there vided over issues like the ordaining of women for the new Anglican Church in North America, is no other message [regarding homosexuality],” and openly gay priests. On Dec. 3, members of “what we have from these leaders in Africa is she said. “Our job, as leaders in the LGBT com- the Episcopal Church (the American branch of spiritual leadership. The leadership was not prac- munity and as people of faith, is not to change World of Anglicanism) met at Wheaton Evangelical Free ticing traditional and faithful Christianity. These people’s minds but to demonstrate the effects Chocolate Church in Wheaton, Ill., and unveiled a draft leaders from other countries give us guidance. of homophobia.” She pointed to examples in Ja- page 7 constitution for a newly formed Anglican Church We’re teaching nothing that hasn’t been taught maica where gays and lesbians are getting killed in North America. It will be headed by Bishop for 2,000 years. We want the world to conform in the streets, and emphasized the importance Robert Duncan of Pittsburgh. to the Bible, not the Bible to the world.” of solidarity between LGBT people of color in the The Anglican Church’s spiritual leader is the Rev. Deborah Lake of Sankofa Way—a non- United States and their colleagues elsewhere. archbishop of Canterbury, a post currently held profit, faith-based organization that focuses on Homosexuality and its relationship to the by Rowan Williams. The Archbishop came under gays and lesbians—pointed out that religion is church has frequently appeared as a topic of fire from conservatives for a statement in August deeply connected to economic need in develop- dissension in the Anglican Church. The preamble that gay relationships “were comparable to mar- ing countries facing immense poverty: “People of the draft constitution states that “[w]e are riage.” Until now, Episcopalians who disagreed there don’t just go to church for services, when grieved by the current state of brokenness with- with their church hierarchy over such issues the church, in places of deep poverty, is the only in the Anglican Communion prompted by those could defer to the authority of African and Latin place that provides the basics of life. People who have embraced erroneous teaching and who American bishops. 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