Church needs to get 'closure' on gay row, says report to Archbishop of Canterbury
Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent of The Times
October 4, 2007

The Anglican Church in the US has given all the "necessary assurances" demanded of it by Archbishops from around the world in the row over homosexuality, according to a report to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams.

In the report, the policy committee at the heart of the Anglican Communion's structures, said the warring parties in the Anglican Church should now "move towards closure" on the issue that has taken the Church to the brink of schism.

The Joint Standing Committee of the Anglican Communion and the Church's primates said in their report, published last night, that it was satisfied by reassurances from the US bishops last week that they would exercise "restraint" in the ordination of any more gay bishops, and would not authorise same-sex blessings. the rest