Hong Kong Anglican leader urges dialogue not division on sexuality
04/01/07

The outgoing leader of the Anglican Church in Hong Kong has used the opportunity provided by a retirement address to urge dialogue rather than division on issues of sexuality currently raging across the 77 million strong worldwide Anglican Communion.

"Anglicanism is inclusive”, 70-year-old Chinese Primate Peter Kwong, who retired on 1 January 2007, stressed, emphasizing the deep historic ad theological roots to its unity-in-diversity.

He continued: “There is high church and there is a low church. Anglicans can co-exist and even hold different interpretations of faith… So why shouldn't we find a common ground on homosexuality?"

Kwong has long tried to maintain a central position in the disputes which have followed the election and consecration of an openly gay man, Gene Robinson, to be Bishop of New Hampshire in the USA, and moves towards the blessing of same-sex unions. the rest