Anglicanism
The Anglican Communion has been divided over the issue of homosexuality in several ways. The Church of England, the mother church of the Communion, currently maintains (according to the statement Issues in Human Sexuality) that same-sex partnerships are acceptable for laypersons but gay clergy are expected to be abstinent. The Lambeth Conference of 1998 called homosexuality "incompatible with Scripture" but this remains a purely advisory guideline as there are no communion-wide legislative bodies in the Anglican Church. On the other hand, in 2003 the Episcopal Church, which is the American body (province) of the Anglican Communion, approved Gene Robinson to the bishopric of the diocese of New Hampshire. Bishop Gene Robinson is the first openly gay (non-celibate) clergy to be ordained to the episcopate.
The Anglican Church of New Zealand has decided to allow homosexuals to become clergy.
Owing to the changing views regarding sexual morality of the Episcopal Church USA, in 2009 the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) was formed as a conservative alternative to the Episcopal Church. Made up of parishes and dioceses that have left the Episcopal Church and of "Continuing Anglican" congregations, the ACNA claims to espouse a traditional Christian view of marriage being between one man and one woman.
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