Archbishop of Wales Rejects A Church Peace Plan

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[icWales] 19 Sep 2007--The Archbishop of Wales yesterday won the applause of gay rights activists and dismayed conservatives when he rejected a plan intended to stop the Anglican communion splitting.

Today he and Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams are flying to New Orleans where they will meet American bishops at the heart of the controversy over homosexuality.

Conservatives around the world were outraged in 2003 when the US church elected Gene Robinson – who had divorced his wife and was in a relationship with another man – as a bishop.

The controversial “Anglican Covenant” – a peace plan to keep disparate elements of the Anglican church united – is seen as one way in which trust between Anglicans the world over might be renewed and common identity and inheritance asserted.

But before jetting off to the US, the Archbishop of Wales, Dr Barry Morgan, told the Governing Body of the Church in Wales at a meeting in Lampeter yesterday that the covenant could leave Anglicans with different views on homosexuality no option but to leave the communion.