Leaders of the Anglican communion in Canterbury, England, have barred a liberal US branch from voting and decision-making for three years, for supporting gay marriage. The decision came this week after years of deliberation. The US Episcopal Church supports same-sex marriage and ordained an openly gay bishop in 2003. The Guardian reports: But even Welby’s tantalising distraction that Anglicans may be ready to fix the date of Easter – something that has been hotly debated since the early church – cannot mask the message being sent out to the LGBT community: you are a problem, and we will establish our unity on the basis of your exclusion. Of course, the communique from the Anglican primates is full of various handwringing denials of their homophobia: they “affirm again that God’s love for every human being is the same, regardless of their sexuality, and that the church should never by its actions give any other impression”. Except, that is precisely the impression given. Those who have been celebrating the love that gay people can share in faithful relationships have been punished. And those who prefer to send homosexual people to prison have been rewarded by the exclusion of the American church. So [...]