Thursday 1 March 2007

Two choices facing the Anglican Communion

[...] Two scenarios, however, do present themselves as possible options: One is that the Global South Primates, lead by Nigerian Primate Peter Akinola and eleven of his South south archbishops, could decide to leave and form their own communion, by simply refusing to attend Canterbury in 2008 and setting up a parallel Lambeth style conference on African soil.

Another scenario, one that seems to be gaining ground, is that The Episcopal Church will withdraw itself from the Anglican Communion making null and void any further discussion on sexuality issues. Believing that its adoption of the homosexual agenda now makes it impossible to stay with a communion that does not understand its progressive views on sexual morality, indeed the Christian Faith itself, TEC will go its own way with fifteen or more countries they have been supporting financially. Thus, the TEC will have their own "more perfect union." Read more

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