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09/03/2007
Kenya consecration deepens Anglican rift
by Alex Kirby - BBC News
The consecration by Kenya's Anglican Church of two US bishops raises the temperature of the rancorous dispute dividing the two wings of the 70 million-strong Church:
liberal Anglicans, who are happy to accept gay and lesbian people as bishops, and traditionalists, who are deeply opposed. 
The bishops will be under Kenyan jurisdiction but serve in the US
But what Kenya's Archbishop Benjamin Nzimbi has done is not simply about homosexuality.
It goes to the heart of the way the Anglican Church sees itself.
Anglicans, like Catholic and Orthodox Christians, cherish the unity of their Church above almost everything else.
And the focus of unity is the bishop.
