Church to set up forum to resolve disputes such as homosexuality
Riazat Buttreligious affairs correspondent
guardian.co.uk
Monday July 28 2008
A pastoral forum is to be set up to resolve disputes within the Anglican communion over divisive issues such as homosexuality, same sex blessings and cross border interventions.
The recommendation was one of several in a key document, issued today to hundreds of bishops attending a landmark summit in Canterbury, and is designed to avoid a split in the 80m-strong communion through the reconciliation of warring conservatives and liberals.
According to the Windsor Continuation Group, which was established to analyse the crisis and proposed the initiative, the "swift formation" of this body would "engage theologically and practically" with situations of controversy as they arose or divisive actions that might be taken.
A forum would act as a "holding bay" for provinces or dioceses wanting to break away from their leadership and its president would be the archbishop of Canterbury, who would also be responsible for appointing its members and a chair. the rest image
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The forum is not to resolve disputes about homosexuality, but to discuss how to resolve the institutional disputes and conflicts arising out of the irreconcilable disputes about homosexuality (and the authority of Scripture in general).
Nor is the ABC going to do this for sure -- this is merely a suggestion being discussed at Lambeth. An, not only will this committee not even make any "official" recommendations until next May, at the earliest, this is also nothing but a re-hash of the utterly ineffectual "Pastoral Committee" already proposed -- and already rejected by PEcUSA -- by the primates' council at Dar Es Salaam.
It's going nowhere. And, even if it did, it's simply be ignored by PEcUSA, as was the Windsor Report itself.
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