Posted on 02/09/2010 9:19:43 AM PST by marshmallow
The Archbishop of Canterbury today issued a "profound apology" to the lesbian and gay Christian community.
In a powerful address to General Synod Dr Rowan Williams warned that any schism within the church would represent of a "betrayal" of God's mission.
But he made clear that he regretted recent rhetoric in which he has sought to mollify the fears of the traditionalist wing of the church.
The Archbishop is from the Church's liberal Catholic wing and a man who once espoused equal rights for gays within the Church. More recently he has adopted a conservative line for the sake of Church unity.
Today he said: "There are ways of speaking about the question that seem to ignore these human realities or to undervalue them.
"I have been criticised for doing just this and I am profoundly sorry for the carelessness that could give such an impression."
Addressing the even more contentious debate over gay ordinations - something which threatens to split the Church further with the expected consecration in May of lesbian Canon Mary Glasspool as a bishop in Los Angeles - Dr Williams said it had not been helped by those who ignored the fact that many regular worshippers are gay, as well as many "sacrificial and exemplary priests".
He made it clear there was blame on all sides of the argument that has brought the Church to the brink of splitting. He pleaded for Anglicans battling over gays and women bishops to cease fighting, admitting that he and other bishops might have to settle for a two-tier communion if it is to survive at all.
In his wide-ranging address at Church house Westminster, Dr Williams made clear that the ordination of women bishops should not go ahead at the expense of the Church's Anglican Catholic wing................,
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And I demand an apology.
schism was and is a primary goal of the homosexual and feminist activists who have infiltrated the Communion in England, the US and Canada.
I’m in the ‘profoundly jackass’ section.
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