Anglican Homosexual Appointee Steps Down

LONDON, July 7, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canon Jeffrey John, the active homosexual Anglican cleric who was promoted to bishop a few weeks ago, has announced that he will not accept the position after all. “It has become clear to me that in view of the damage my consecration might cause to the unity of the Church … I must seek the consent of the Crown to withdraw acceptance of my appointment,” he said.  Several pro-homosexual clerics lashed out anonymously. “You can take it he was bounced. This stinks to high heaven. There is no way that he has resigned voluntarily. He is in agony,” said a senior cleric quoted in The Guardian. Another lashed out at evangelicals. “For some reason the evangelicals have declared war on the rest of the Church of England,” wrote “a gay vicar who prefers to remain anonymous,” in the Guardian. “If they win – and on present form it looks as though they will – they will win control of the Church of England. But they will have destroyed it in the process. They will have gained complete control of a deserted, burnt out ghost town: a band of slightly freakish obsessives haunted by the ghosts of their own puritanical self-righteousness, and utterly irrelevant to the lives of right-thinking people everywhere. … Welcome to the demise of the Church of England.”  For local coverage:  https://www.sabcnews.com/world/other/0,1009,61788,00.html   For coverage from The Guardian:  https://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,2763,992916,00.html