Britain's OutRage! Zaps 800 Bishops

OutRage! protestors talk with an Anglican Bishop about the Chruch's anti-gay positions. (Photo: John Hunt/OutRage!)

Forty gay activists organized by the group OutRage! zapped 800 Anglican bishops at London's Festival Pier July 28 as the prelates boarded a boat to cruise the Thames.

The bishops were attending the Anglican Church's once-every-10- years Lambeth Conference.

The protesters castigated the bishops for supporting anti-gay discrimination and demanded the church launch a "Queer Reformation." They chanted, "Church of hatred, church of fear, stop crucifying queers!"

Some protesters were dressed as bishops, priests or nuns. Two OutRage! "bishops" kissed each other while a gay-male nun sprinkled the real bishops with "homo water ... to cleanse them of the sin of homophobia" -- a takeoff on "holy water" used in the Catholic and Anglican faiths.

"Dr. Carey and many of his bishops are acting like the leaders of the Afrikaaner Church in South Africa during apartheid," said OutRage's John Hunt. "They are opposing equality and endorsing discrimination."

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