Anglican Consultative Council gathers in Jamaica in early May

http://www.anglicanjournal.com/issues/2009/135/may/05/article/anglican-consultative-council-gathers-in-jamaica-in-early-may/?cHash=e96890fc9f

[Anglican Journal] 30 May 2009--The last time the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) met, in 2005, Canadian and American delegates sat on the sidelines. They were there to “attend but not participate” after their churches were censured for their more-liberal stand on the contentious issue of homosexuality.

At that meeting, the ACC decided to endorse a request from the primates’ meeting that the two churches withdraw from the council at least until the 2008 Lambeth Conference because of the debate triggered by the consecration of a gay bishop in The Episcopal Church and the blessing of same-sex unions in the Vancouver-based diocese of New Westminster.