“If you want to solemnize same-sex marriages start your own church!” – Archbishop Glenn Davies
by David Virtue, VOL:
Former Sydney Archbishop speaks out about the state of the Anglican Church in Australia. Archbishop blames North American Church for moving away from the Thirty-Nine Articles
Former Sydney Archbishop Glenn Davies lashed out at revisionists who want to broker same-sex marriages into the Anglican Church, saying, “if you want to solemnize same-sex marriages start your own church.”
Davies told Lionel Windsor in an Anglican Church League Podcast that homosexuality is “a salvation issue” and “dioceses that have departed from this have actually broken communion and that’s over very significant issues.”
“If we really believe in the Anglican Church of Australia, we need to make sure that this is not fractured along these lines. And that those who want to bless same-sex unions or those who want to solemnize same-sex marriages, well then start your own church! Go off but don’t change our church because we are grounded in the teaching of Scripture.”
“We need to keep that unity of the Church based on that doctrine,” he said.
Glenn is an author in a recently published book The Line in the Sand. The book is addressed to General Synod members, and speaks about a turning point in the history of the Anglican Church of Australia.
In November 2020, the church-based Appellate Tribunal released a Majority Opinion that gave legal validation to a liturgy which can be used to bless a same-sex marriage for the first time in the Church’s history. This is a deeply concerning move, because it effects a fundamental change in the nature of the Church’s doctrine relating to issues of salvation, and so it threatens the Church’s unity.
The book, The Line in the Sand, is designed to help General Synod members to see the issues clearly and address them decisively in their upcoming session in May 2022, said Davies.
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