PRIMATES MEETING OUTCOME: Episcopal Church suspended from full participation in Anglican Communion

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[font size="3"]PRIMATES MEETING OUTCOME: Episcopal Church suspended from full participation in Anglican Communion[/font]
Thu 14 Jan 2016
By Sam Hailes

Anglican Primates have suspended The Episcopal Church from full participation in the Anglican Communion for the next three years.

The decision was made at the Primates meeting in Canterbury where Anglican leaders had gathered to "reflect and pray" about the future of the Communion.

The meeting came about after The Episcopal Church in the United States went against other churches in the Communion by authorising its clergy to perform same sex marriages in July last year.

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The news follows four days of discussion over the church's position on homosexuality. Earlier today it was confirmed the Archbishop of Uganda had walked of the meeting amid disagreements.

This was posted this afternoon in LBN.

Seems to me like the far more progressive US Episcopal Church would fare better by separating from the Anglicans. What do they gain by remaining in such a conservative body?