http://your.sydneyanglicans.net/socialissues/73_the_churches_and_sexual_wholeness/
[your.sydneyanglicans.net] 12 Feb 2008--Archbishop Jensen has recently decided not to take his Sydney bishops to the Archbishop of Canterbury’s forthcoming conference in Lambeth, London. This formal diplomatic statement is a protest against the direction of North American Anglicanism, and is made in solidarity with several other Anglican bishops. ‘We remain committed to the international Anglican communion,’ says Archbishop Jensen, and life in our churches will go on. Most people will not think much about this diplomatic protest, and relatively few will pay close attention to it.
But the reasons for their attention are worth our reflection. Do the grounds for the boycott—in this case, differing views over the place of homosexuality in our fellowship—mean that conservative Christians and Anglicans are ‘homophobic’? Are they obsessed with sex? Has the Anglican church now split?
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