Homosexual practice is incompatible with scripture, doctrine, and Indian values, argued leaders of the Church of North India (CNI) at a recent Church summit on the sexuality issue.
This decision, and the earlier opposition of CNI’s 24 bishops to the consecration of practicing homosexual Gene Robinson, is expected to guide the deliberations of the CNI’s moderator, the Rt Rev Z James Terom, Bishop of Chata Nagpur, who serves as a member of the Lambeth Commission on Communion.
With the Commission, chaired by the Irish Primate, Archbishop Robin Eames, due to report in October, the Indian Church’s hard-line stance demonstrates how high feelings are running in the wake of last year’s consecration of the Communion’s first active homosexual.
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