Former Archbishop Says Anglicans 'Should Not Demonize One Another'
As a divided Anglican Communion nears a worldwide leaders gathering, the former head of the global denomination says they should not 'demonize one another.'
by Lilian Kwon
Friday, Feb. 2, 2007

As a divided Anglican Communion nears a worldwide leaders gathering, the former head of the global denomination says they should not "demonize one another."

Former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey told Duke University in an interview that the Episcopal Church broke from a 1998 resolution that all bishops in the Communion had agreed to when the U.S. body ordained an openly gay bishop. Nevertheless, Carey emphasized that "there are good, noble people on both sides of the argument."

Carey, who served as archbishop for over 11 years, had presided over the 1998 Lambeth Conference where bishops from Anglican provinces worldwide approved Lambeth Resolution 1.10. Among the resolution's seven points, two of them states that in view of the teaching of Scripture, the Communion:

1. while rejecting homosexual practice as incompatible with Scripture, calls on all our people to minister pastorally and sensitively to all irrespective of sexual orientation and to condemn irrational fear of homosexuals, violence within marriage and any trivialization and commercialization of sex;

2. cannot advise the legitimizing or blessing of same sex unions nor ordaining those involved in same gender unions the rest