Conservatives urge Anglicans to shun gay bishop, Episcopal Church


Undated-AP -- Continued division in the Episcopal church over openly gay clergy and same-sex blessings.
Conservatives have told an emergency commission that global Anglicanism should shun both New Hampshire Bishop Gene Robinson and the denomination unless things change.

Those proposals were presented this month to the Lambeth Commission -- a group of church leaders charged with finding a way to preserve the World Anglican Communion despite the deep rift over homosexuality.

The panel holds one more meeting in September, then must report to Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and the other 37 Anglican primates.