CANTERBURY: GAFCON Primates weigh walking out of Anglican Summit

Oct 4, 2017 by

by David Virtue, VOL:

A group of orthodox Anglican Archbishops hinted they might walk out of an Anglican summit being held by the Archbishop of Canterbury over the issue of same-sex marriage, but stopped short of saying they would formally break with the Anglican Communion.

At a press conference today, a spokesman for the orthodox Anglican GAFCON primates said the Scottish Episcopal Church would have to repent over its decision last June to let clergy perform same sex weddings.

The Rev. Andrew Gross said if there’s no repentance, “I’m not sure if they can remain in the room”, but he said it’s up to the conscience of the individual Primate on what his reaction would be.

Recounting the long history of same sex violations in both the US Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada, Gross said reconciliation was little more than compromise and that was unacceptable to the GAFCON primates.

Failure to repent meant that they “could not share in fellowship together,” he said. He likened it to walking through a minefield.

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