The decision by the Anglican Church to sanction its US Branch for practicing same sex marriage is truly shocking. Religion without spirituality is both dangerous and harmful. There are too many in the Anglican (and other) churches who are very religious but spiritually barren. They have no instinctive feel for truth or for the meaning of life, they have no sense of compassion and human understanding, they are unable to think for themselves. Instead they study ancient texts, written by men long before much was understood about the science of nature, the universe or even the fact that the earth was round. They interpret what they read literally to reinforce their own prejudice and impose on others unhappiness and distress to make themselves feel good. They declare they speak for God, yet all of it flies in the face of what compassionate Christianity is all about.
People cannot help the way they are born. To place them at practical or emotional or spiritual disadvantage because of their sexual orientation, so that the Anglican Church treats them as second class is not only wrong. It is wicked. There is no other word for it. It is also not Christian.