Archbishop who blessed lesbians loses his licence
By Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent
October 02, 2006
A RETIRED Anglican archbishop has been disciplined after he broke the rules of his Church and formally blessed a lesbian marriage.
Archbishop Terence Finlay, the retired Metropolitan of Ontario in Canada, has had his licence to officiate at marriages suspended after he blessed the same-sex ceremony of two close friends of his family.
The father of one of them had been one of his theology professors and he has known her since she was a child.
The disclosure has surprised some traditionalists and liberals because the Archbishop, who retired in 2004, made headlines in the 1990s for dismissing a priest who was in a homosexual relationship. the rest
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