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Instead, it was one of the worldwide denomination\u2019s liberal provinces\u2014The Episcopal Church (TEC) in the United States\u2014which received censure: suspension from Anglican committees and decision-making for three years.<\/p>\n

Now the debate is over how significant the suspension is, with some conservatives still wishing for more.<\/p>\n

Meeting in the crypt of Canterbury Cathedral in England, the majority of the communion\u2019s 38 primates voted today to suspend TEC for voting last summer to allow its clergy to perform same-sex marriages.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe traditional doctrine of the church in view of the teaching of Scripture, upholds marriage as between a man and a woman in faithful, lifelong union. The majority of those gathered reaffirm this teaching,\u201d read the primates\u2019 statement, which was released early after it was leaked to the press.<\/p>\n

\u201cSuch actions further impair our communion and create a deeper mistrust between us,\u201d the statement read. \u201cThis results in significant distance between us and places huge strains on the functioning of the Instruments of Communion and the ways in which we express our historic and ongoing relationships.\u201d<\/p>\n

TEC will no longer be able to represent the Anglican Communion at ecumenical or interfaith gatherings, be appointed or elected to internal standing committees, or take part in decisions relating to doctrine or polity.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnlike the recommendations of the Windsor Report, which called for the \u2018voluntary withdrawal\u2019 of the Episcopal Church from the life of the Communion, today\u2019s vote directs the archbishop to discipline the American church,\u201d wrote George Conger, who broke the story at Anglican Ink.<\/p>\n

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