GAFCON Primates: Priority Will be Given to the Possible Formation of a Province in North America

August 29, 2008
The Living Church

The draft report from the Windsor Continuation Group offers nothing that doesn’t already have a proven track record of failure, according to Bishop Gregory Venables, primate of the Anglican Church of the Southern Cone.

Bishop Venables spoke with a reporter from The Living Church shortly after the release of a communiqué from the GAFCON Primates’ Council. The communiqué rejects the conclusions and recommendations contained in a draft paper distributed by the six-members of the Windsor Continuation Group during the Lambeth Conference, specifically: the continuation group's call for a three-fold moratorium on public blessing of same-sex unions, the consecration of partnered homosexual persons as bishop and cross-border incursions by overseas bishops.

“There is nothing new here such as to make us hesitate from the course we are taking, given the urgency of the situations with which we are dealing and the realities already on the ground,” the statement said. Referring to a letter, written prior to the start of the council meeting by five North American Anglican bishops who serve under the authority and oversight of various individual primates on the GAFCON council, the communiqué also notes that the continuation group proposals were developed without any consultation with those most directly affected in North America. the rest