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ROME, March 21, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – On the day of his enthronement as Archbishop of Canterbury , Justin Welby has sent an “olive branch” message to one of the UK’s leading homosexual campaigners, Peter Tatchell , inviting him to discuss “gay marriage.” Welby is said to be still “thinking through” his position on the government’s proposed redefinition of marriage . While they supported homosexual civil unions, the Church of England has  formally opposed  the government’s plans to rewrite the marriage law, though the position of many of its bishops and clergy remains ambivalent. Welby’s invitation to Tatchell comes in response to  an open letter  from the gay campaigner in which he accused Welby of “homophobia” for his opposition to changing the law. Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali . “You claim that you are not homophobic but a person who opposes legal equality for LGBT people is homophobic – in the same way that a person who opposes equal rights for bl...

AUCKLAND, New Zealand, November 5, 2012, ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - Despite apparent support for same-sex “marriage” from leadership in the Anglican Church, Rowan Williams , the Archbishop of Canterbury admitted recently at a youth forum in New Zealand that most of those who fill the pews of Anglican Churches around the world favor a traditional definition of marriage. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury. According to a  Taonga News report , the comment came during a question-and-answer session in which one of the participants asked, “New Zealand is debating a bill to authorize same sex marriage. What do Anglicans  have to say about same sex marriage?” “The Anglican Church has quite a lot to say about this issue – but it’s not always the same thing that people are saying,” Williams responded. “I’d say that for the vast majority of Anglicans in the world, the idea of same-sex marriage is not something they can come to terms with.” Bishop Jeffe...

Brian made this picture while Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, visited his work and held a press conference. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) American churches and denominations had better take note. When a church or Christian institution bows to the authority of the state on a matter of such direct biblical importance, it is destined to lose biblical fidelity. As if the Church of England does not have enough troubles, word is leaking out of Lambeth Palace that the church is about to allow the appointment of openly gay bishops , so long as those bishops remain celibate. The news has emerged in the form of a leaked internal memorandum prepared for the Archbishop of Canterbury by the church’s highest legal adviser. The legal guidelines are intended to bring the church into compliance with Britain’s Equality Act of 2010, even as the church is considering new criteria for the appointment of bishops. That law prohibits discrimination on the basis of several characteristics,...

Image via Wikipedia The trouble with compromise is that it all too often pleases no-one and sounds both hypocritical and bizarre. Behind all the hullabaloo about gay priests and even possibly gay bishops , people have perhaps missed the fact that the C of E began compromising on this issue many years ago. It is quite simply untenable to allow one thing for ‘ordinary’ members of the church and another for its leaders. The church must jump one way or the other. Cultural relevance or biblical absolutes- they simply can’t have it both ways! the Guardian states  “The row may well signal an end to the unsatisfactory compromise enshrined in the 1991 House of Bishops statement, Issues in Human Sexuality – a document which stated that gay sexual relationships were allowable for the faithful laity, but wrong for the clergy. A dozen bishops are reliably reported to have persisted in appointing gay priests: the new Archbishop of Canterbury , Dr Rowan Williams , has made plain his unhapp...