‘Thank God for those primates who were not at Dublin’

Posted on February 5, 2011 
Filed under Opinion

“During his closing press conference, Dr. Williams stated that there was “unfinished business” for the Church in regards to the eligibility of non-celibate homosexuals as bishops.

Did he mean by this that the door remains open, in his mind, to adjust the settled teaching of the Anglican Communion (Lambeth 1.10 (1979)) to permit the ordination and consecration of non-celibate gay and lesbians to leadership within the church? Whatever the answer to that question, the Archbishop of Canterbury has made clear that he is not willing to apply any discipline whatsoever to cure what ails the Communion.”

–  Canon Phil Ashey writes in his weekly e-mail update from the American Anglican Council.