African Anglicans could boycott summit over gays
Wed 23 May 2007
By Paul Majendie

LONDON (Reuters) - One of Africa's most outspoken archbishops issued a veiled threat on Wednesday to boycott a major Anglican conference over the deeply divisive issue of gay clergy.

American Liberals, who sparked the row in the first place by ordaining an openly gay bishop, called for calm among the world's 77 million Anglicans -- but the plea fell on deaf ears.

The latest crisis on the road to schism was provoked by Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, the church's spiritual leader who has battled to placate the warring camps and bemoaned what many see as an Anglican obsession with sex. the rest