Agape Press: The results of a year-long study by an Anglican commission, convened to resolve the rupture over the issue of homosexuality, failed to satisfy either side of the dispute, giving new life to fears of the denomination's ultimate disintegration.
The Windsor Report failed to settle the controversy within the 77-million-member Anglican Communion that erupted in the summer of 2003, when its American province, the Episcopal Church (ECUSA), elected openly homosexual Gene Robinson to the bishopric of New Hampshire.
In response, 22 of 38 Anglican provinces worldwide either severed or minified relationships with the ECUSA. Most of the conservative provinces are in Latin America, Africa and Asia.
Conservatives in the ECUSA also were distraught over Robinson's consecration. An Episcopal renewal group, the American Anglican Council (AAC), spearheaded attempts to protect orthodox Episcopalians from the sudden and radical turn of liberal ECUSA bishops.
