Diocese of Niagara “walks apart” from Anglican Communion

http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/index.php/2007/11/17/diocese-of-niagara-walks-apart-from-anglican-communion/

[Anglican Mainstream] 19 Nov 2007--The Anglican Network in Canada stands with the millions of Anglicans - in Canada and throughout the worldwide Anglican Communion - who are hurt and distressed by the decision of the Niagara Synod and Bishop to proceed at a time of the bishop’s choosing with the blessing of same-sex marriages. The Ottawa and Montreal Synods approved similar motions in October but their bishops have withheld consent to proceed.

“We are grieved that the synod and bishops of Niagara have chosen to walk away from centuries of Christian teaching and defy the consensus within the Anglican Communion,” says the Right Reverend Donald Harvey, Moderator of the Anglican Network in Canada. “There is clearly a growing momentum within the Anglican Church of Canada to ignore biblical teaching, disregard the views of the global Church, and even ignore the principles upon which the Canadian Church was founded. These actions have ‘torn the fabric’ of the Communion at its deepest level just as the Primates warned in October 2003″