Southern Cone bishop lends support to breakaway Anglicans

Douglas Todd, Canwest News Service
Thursday, April 24, 2008

VANCOUVER - Why can't Canada's infighting Anglicans just love each other?

That's the question one of South America's high-level Anglicans is bringing to the country - even while he accuses Vancouver-area Anglican Bishop Michael Ingham of not being an authentic Christian for allowing the blessing of same-sex relationships.

"I tell people in Canada not to get filled up with bitterness about the homosexual issue, to just try to allow Christ's love and generosity to come through," says Gregory Venables, who was elected primate (senior archbishop) of the Southern Cone in 2001.

"There's all this silly acrimony. It's like a ping-pong game. But instead of throwing sweets around, we're throwing hand grenades," Venables said in an interview Thursday in a large home in the Oakridge neighbourhood of Vancouver, where a local Anglican has provided the prelate and his wife a place to sleep. the rest