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...found your profile of archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams both sympathetic and well balanced [June 18]. His position of leadership must be one of the least enviable within the church or even the world. The difficulties he faces between American liberals and African conservatives over the issue of homosexual clergy seem almost insoluble. It is assumed by both sides of the controversy over homosexual priests that an agreement can be reached under which all parties are forced to follow one dogmatic position. Each outpost of Anglicanism, however, has become too much the creature of its own society and culture...
...impossible to get from Scripture anything straightforwardly positive about same-sex relationships." The Bible states that all such relationships are wrong. When one comes to the Christian faith, one is expected to work at becoming more like Christ, not to mold Christ to fit one's beliefs. The Archbishop would not have had to deal with this crisis if he had been sincere enough to follow Jesus Christ's teachings, as clearly stated in the Bible. Bukola Apantaku, LEICESTER, ENGLAND...
...Bible presents God's stance on same-sex relationships from the very beginning: God did not create two Adams or two Eves but one of each. Archbishop Peter Akinola of Nigeria got it right, regardless of his being considered "archconservative" in your article. The following are not his words, but God's: "Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable" (Leviticus 18: 22 and 20: 13). If the Anglican community seriously considers that same-sex relationships are a matter open for discussion, then the Bible should be modified. Since the Word...
...many Christians do that pro-gay measures must be preceded by a broad shift in consensus--and thinks the U.S. church failed in that regard. Old allies, he admits, saw his shift on gays as a "betrayal." But it has won him few new friends--certainly not archconservative Nigerian Archbishop Peter Akinola, who has said that God regards homosexuality as the equivalent of humans' having sex with various animals and who has set up his own Anglican body...
...Conference, and he announced in May that for now he was excluding just two people: Robinson and Martyn Minns, the bishop of Akinola's U.S. church. Akinola has threatened that Nigeria will boycott Lambeth, and Robinson hinted at wanting the Episcopalians to do likewise. But defections may be limited. Archbishop Drexel Gomez of the West Indies, an influential Global South leader, says his contingent will attend. Liberal Washington bishop John Chane said he will probably skip the conference out of loyalty to Robinson, but "I think the American church will be well represented ... I don't see a walkout...