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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is sad.[b] However, the Episcopal church in the US - which is also part of the Anglican Communio[/b]n - does not have that policy. It allows marriage rites for gay weddings. [/quote]

It also allows gay priests, like ours. [/quote]

Nope, the Episcopal Church of the USA was ousted from communion with the Anglican community.  "January 14, 2016 - The Episcopal Church is suspended from participating in Anglican Communion activities for three years in response to the church's acceptance of same-sex marriage. The decision is made during a meeting of leaders from the Anglican Communion's independent churches."  Only Anglican churches in the USA (and worldwide) are in communion with England.[/quote]

??? We’re talking about the Episcopal Church of the USA and how it does allow gay priests. The response of the Anglican community is sad, but it has no practical bearing on what Episcopal churches in this country are actually doing. [/quote]

Aren’t there Episcopal churches in the US that split off and are still within the Anglican community? I seem to remember the Falls Church is one of them.[/quote]

There are. But they call themselves Anglican, not Episcopal. My memory from long ago (so anybody feel free to correct me) is that the Episcopal Church of the USA changed its name some time after the Revolutionary War because the US itself was no longer part of Britain. “Episcopal” refers to having bishops, unlike some other churches. [/quote.    Yes a number of them split off and are thriving. They are the churches In communion with England.  The remaining EpiscopAl churches are dying and are not in communion with England [/quote]

They aren’t dying. We’ve been through this before, if you’re the Anglican who is so incensed that the judge wouldn’t let you keep the church building when you broke away. Like most religions (mainline Protestant, Judaism) here has been a decline because of increasing secularization. I don’t have enough interest to dig out that old thread, but as I recall, you used an old and unrepresentative time frame to make this claim, and you didn’t adjust any decline for you Anglicans breaking away. [/quote]

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