AAC: BISHOP SWING'S ACTION TO REMOVE BISHOP CHARLES HIGHLIGHTS INCONGRUITY

The American Anglican Council comments on Bishop William Swing’s revocation of Otis Charles’s license and removal as assisting bishop in California.

Details remain sketchy, but the action appears linked to Charles’s April 24 “marriage” to Felipe Sanchez Paris. The diocese states same-sex blessings require the bishop’s approval and must not “resemble marriage.” The matter is “under investigation” for possible violations.

If this reflects a new trend toward moral discipline in ECUSA, we welcome it—especially if extended to New Hampshire (which elected a practicing homosexual as bishop) and Washington, D.C. (where Bishop John Chane proposes expanding same-sex rites beyond General Convention limits).

But is this really about morality—or authority? Did Charles simply bypass protocol? Or is the post-2003 crisis now “too hot to handle”?

Are these decisions driven by expediency, not conviction?

The AAC continues calling ECUSA to repent—diocese by diocese—so the church may experience renewal.

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