Archbishop Justin discusses same-sex marriage at talks with President Mugabe

Apr 19, 2016 by

from ACNS:

The Archbishop of Canterbury has said he discussed the issue of same-sex marriage in talks with Zimbabwe’s president, Robert Mugabe, during a flying visit to Harare at the weekend. The Archbishop had stressed that the meeting at State House on Sunday was pastoral rather than political. Few details have been made public.

But, speaking to members of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) on Tuesday afternoon, during their ACC-16 meeting in Lusaka, the Archbishop said the president had raised the topic. In response, the Archbishop said that he had explained that there were differing views within the Anglican Communion but the majority one was that marriage was the lifelong union of a man and woman. The Archbishop said that he had also reiterated the Primates’ opposition to the criminalization of LGBTIQ people, which he described as “entirely wrong”.

The Archbishop told ACC members they were deeply committed to combating criminalisation and not backing those who supported it.

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