Anglican liberals attack Windsor report
Date: Sep 30

Anglican discussion on homosexuality has been superficial, claimed the Archbishop of Wales, Barry Morgan, in a commendation for a new book which attacks the Windsor Report. Archbishop Morgan who was himself a member of the Lambeth Commission which produced the report, in contrast has praised a book of essays by leading Anglican liberals and gay theologians. He said that the book which criticises his predecessor, Rowan William’s handling of the crisis, presented a “formidable challenge to the Anglican Communion” which it could not “ignore”. In the collection of essays ‘Gays and the Future of Anglicanism’, Oxford theologian Andrew Linzey compares Anglican attitudes to homosexuals to the policy of the Nazis and accuses the Anglican Communion of “homophobia”. He also highlights the Archbishop of Canterbury’s own unenviable position in the current controversy pointing out Dr William’s previously publicised views on homosexual and the revelation that he had ordained practising homosexuals. “The Report [Windsor] sees no irony in wanting the Archbishop to become a visible focus of unity, and an “instrument” of discipline, despite the fact that he is already regarded, by those who want that view to prevail, as a “false teacher” himself. The rest