Anglican game is worth the candle, says Williams
by staff reporters
2 March, 2007

THERE IS no retreat from the sexuality debate, Dr Williams told the General Synod on Monday, a week after the conclusion of the Primates’ Meeting in Dar es Salaam.

“It feels as though we are caught in a battle very few really want to be fighting; like soldiers in the trenches somewhere around 1916, trying to remember just what were the decisions that got everyone to a point where hardly anyone was owning the conflict. . .

“So it is natural to want to say: ‘This is a war no one chose; there must be a simple way of halting the conflict and getting the troops home’. . . Unhappily, though, the truth is that, when conflicts have passed a certain point, simple solutions are unlikely to work, to the extent that they ignore the things that bred the conflict in the first place, and that have never been addressed.”

The Archbishop expressed his frustration at the intransigence of people on each side: the “virtual fundamentalism which simply declines to reflect at all about principles of interpretation” and the “cultural snobbery, content to say that we have outgrown biblical principles”. the rest