London - Dark storm clouds of a schism are gathering over the 2008 Lambeth Conference, the 10-yearly meeting of Anglican bishops in Canterbury, England, where an escalating controversy over homosexual priests could prove the biggest challenge to church unity since the 16th century Protestant reformation. Looking back to 1998, when the row was contained with face-saving formulae condemning homophobia while not condoning gay equality, the leadership of the Anglican Church must feel like having performed a Lambeth Walk - the strutting 1930s dance which took two steps forward and one back. At the half-way point between 1998 and 2008, adherence to slogans of unity and tolerance was shattered by the landmark consecration in the US of Gene Robinson, an openly gay priest, as a bishop of the Episcopal Church, the US branch of the...
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