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But what gave Duncan’s salutation its special bite was that he specified the Biblical anecdote in which Solomon chose between two women claiming parenthood of a baby, “so that the true mother of the living child \[could\] raise him.” The analogy was clear. The baby is the Episcopal Church of the U.S.A. (ECUSA), and Duncan, a high-ranking conservative insurgent, sees the current controversy over homosexuality as a custody battle for its body and its soul. He seemed to be expecting to get custody. Like other mainline denominations in the U.S., the Episcopal Church is deeply split over questions of gay ordination and marriage. But in August in Minneapolis, at its triennial General Convention, it appeared to become the first to implode over the issue, as 62 of its 107 normally conflict-averse leaders confirmed the election of a popular, openly gay priest named V. Gene Robinson as Bishop of New Hampshire. Outraged, more than a dozen bishops rejected the vote and threatened to remove their congregations permanently. The possibility of such a schism sent shock waves through the 70-million-strong Anglican Communion, the global network of churches descended from the Church of England. In recent years, the Communion’s power base has shifted from liberal-but-shrinking Western churches to booming, socially conservative Third World congregations, and most of the primates who lead the burgeoning provinces sided with the anti-Robinson camp. The Minneapolis vote came a month after openly gay priest Jeffrey John renounced his appointment as a Church of England bishop following a similar outcry, and on the heels of an even more controversial decision by a Canadian diocese to bless gay unions. With Anglican unity at stake, Williams called this week’s two-day primates’ meeting in London. Participants at the Dallas meeting predicted one of two possible outcomes: the voluntary or involuntary replacement of Robinson; or a departure by conservatives, who will pull their members and their money out of Episcopalianism and join the Third World bishops in a new Anglican alignment. However overambitious those dreams may be, momentum favors the conservatives. No one knows precisely how issues will be decided at the closed-door meeting; but handicappers number the conservative bloc at 20 to 25 of the 38 primates. Until the last few weeks, Nigeria’s Archbishop Peter Akinola had threatened to lead like-minded churches out of the Communion if it were too lenient on the U.S. But he apparently no longer feels the need. “We are not breaking away,” Akinola told TIME. “It is the heretics who will leave the church; we will send them away if they do not repent.” Added Archbishop of Tanzania Donald Mtetemela, “If it means cutting off the leg because it is no use, then the Lord will lead us to do that.” There was a time when the conservatives might have settled for a less severe amputation. Some had favored the establishment of two parallel-but-hostile Anglican bodies in the U.S. But, emboldened by the prospect of victory, this faction, too, has hardened its stance. Says the Rev. Canon David Anderson, head of the American Anglican Council, which organized the Dallas meeting: “The \[American\] church is now apostate, and the stakes are higher.” Similarly, there was a moment after his appointment in 2002 when liberals pinned their hopes on Williams. As a respected bishop-theologian, he had said in the past that stable and faithful same-sex relationships might be legitimate in God’s eyes. But since his enthronement in February, he has taken a tougher line, emphasizing the need to consider how one church’s choices can impact those in other nations. Two weeks ago, after meeting with Pope John Paul II, Williams told Vatican Radio that Anglican teachings on sexuality were the same as those of the Roman Catholic Church (which calls it an “objective disorder”). The statement — and his successful effort to convince John to renounce his appointment — suggested that Williams has subordinated his own views to sustaining ecumenical ties and protecting the Communion from a mass withdrawal — which, as Duncan said, would leave him “the titular head of a moribund and declining British, American and Australian sect.” And so liberals and conservatives are in (rare) agreement that ECUSA will not make it through the London meeting unscathed. The worst sanction would be its de facto expulsion. (Outright dismissal is beyond Williams’ authority, but he could achieve a similar effect by declaring his communion with them “impaired” and withholding invitations to Communion events.) The most lenient outcome that conservatives might accept would be a theological knuckle rap and a probationary period during which ECUSA would be expected to repent by retracting Robinson’s episcopacy. American liberals insist that the primates have never produced that specific a demand. And since their meetings customarily end with a statement made by consensus, stubborn opposition by a handful of liberals could force a milder conclusion. Others have suggested an option more in keeping with the Anglican penchant for “muddling through.” Last Friday Cape Town Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane, the most liberal of Africa’s primates, proposed that a commission be set up to study how the church might learn to live with its disagreements on this issue, just as it did on women’s ordination. “Reducing issues to stark polarizations may make good television,” he said, “but it is not a constructive approach.” In Dallas, Anderson insisted that unless Robinson’s election is retracted, “We split.” Then he asserted that even in the face of a demand by the primates, such a retraction “is as likely as daisies growing in the Arctic Circle.” (ECUSA spokesman James Solheim confirmed this, insisting, “\[Robinson\] will be consecrated.”) So whatever the primates decide, the coming years may be grim indeed. Opinions differ on how much of the U.S. church might depart if a schism occurs — Anderson estimates 30% and liberals describe “a militant fringe.” But any exodus is likely to spark dozens of lawsuits for control of church assets, including real estate and pension funds. Legal fees alone could impoverish both sides. Liberals also warn that Third World churches risk cutting off the channels of funding from the West. The insurgents are ready to take the risk. “This is simony,” says Bernard Malango, the primate of Central Africa. “Let the powerful people keep their money.” He and other conservative primates told time that the moral cost of communion with an unrepentant ECUSA was higher. “We have lost our credibility,” says Tanzania’s Mtetemela. “How can we draw people to the faith of Jesus Christ if we do not follow the Scriptures?” Fudging things in the Anglican tradition would do no good. “We’ve talked around it long enough,” says Drexel Gomez, Archbishop of the West Indies. “We can’t continue limping along.” “I feel a tremendous peace,” said the aac’s Anderson as the Dallas meeting wound down. “There’s a period in a marriage where a spouse is battered and abused and they finally take the kids and the suitcase and get out of there. They may be sitting in a shelter, but they’re finally able to say, ‘I’m safe.'” Others may want to hark back to Duncan’s Solomon reference, and wonder whether, after all the pulling and prodding, the contested child may not be permanently damaged. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6645817/the-schism-of-2003/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6645817/the-schism-of-2003/"},"headline":"The Schism of 2003","datePublished":"2003-10-12T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-26T16:50:18.406Z","description":"The Schism of 2003","url":"https://time.com/archive/6645817/the-schism-of-2003/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"David Van Biema","url":"https://time.com/author/david-van-biema/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6645817/the-schism-of-2003/","name":"The Schism of 2003"}}]}] ```