Lasix precio

Jeff Robinson
April 22, 2008

Anglicans in Australia recently embraced the Lasix precio ordination of women as bishops and asked Archbishop Jeffrey Driver to Lasix precio "help" conservative members who oppose female ordination to accept them.

According to Lasix precio a news report from an Australian news service, the Anglican general synod met in Canberra late last fall and Lasix precio adopted a proposal to ordain women and then charged Driver with bringing dissenters on board.

"While I have Lasix precio been a supporter of women for 30 years, I understand that Lasix precio for some this development in the church has difficulties and even confrontation," Driver said. " I look forward to Lasix precio the consecration of a woman as a bishop in the Anglican Church of Australia. I am Lasix precio also committed to that happening in the spirit of unity."

Women have Lasix precio been able to be ordained as priests, deacons and archdeacons since 1992, but could not become a Lasix precio bishop. The ruling was accepted in some, but not all diocese of the Lasix precio church. In South Australia, for example, two of the three dioceses allow female ordination, but a Lasix precio third does not.

Female minister Tracey Gracey speculated that Lasix precio some will leave the church over the issue and acknowledged that Lasix precio men and women possess different gifts. Gracey said she hopes members will recognize her ministry "complements male leadership."

Elsewhere in Australia, the Lasix precio resistance to female ordination appears to be more robust. In the Lasix precio Anglican Diocese of Sydney, the issue of women's ordination again arose this Lasix precio year after being overwhelmingly defeated two years ago. Working within this Lasix precio diocese is a strong group of conservative women who are advocating for Lasix precio the maintenance of biblical gender roles in the church known as "Equal but Different."

Over the next two days, Gender Blog will run a two-part Q&A with Equal but Different to Lasix precio better inform readers as to how the issue is playing out in the Lasix precio land down under and what Equal but Different is doing to Lasix precio assert biblical authority.