"Alarming Tensions" in the Anglican Communion says Drexel Gomez
The Bahama Journal
October 19, 2005

In Anglican Church Tensions in the worldwide Anglican Church are increasing "at an alarming rate" over issues of homosexuality, the head of the Anglican Church in The Bahamas His Grace Archbishop Drexel Gomez warned in his annual charge Monday night.

The Episcopal Church in the United States [ECUSA] and the arm in Canada have fiercely stood their ground about condoning homosexuality, though the former has offered regret. Anglican traditionalists - Archbishop Gomez included - remain opposed to it."As a province, we have to determine our future relationship with ECUSA and the province of Canada," Archbishop Gomez told a packed congregation at Christ Church Cathedral in downtown Nassau.

"Our present official position is that we exist in a state of impaired relationship at the formal level with both provinces. However, if these provinces, through their convention or general synod, refuse to accept the prevailing Anglican consensus as represented by the Windsor Report, we will have to consider moving beyond a state of impaired communion.

"Relations with other provinces who remain strenuously opposed to the actions taken by the U.S. and Canadian church will factor heavily in that decision, the archbishop explained.
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