Lambeth diary: Anglicans in turmoil

Friday, 1 August 2008
Robert Pigott
BBC

After two weeks of discussion on issues such as the environment and mission, Anglican bishops turned their attention to homosexuality on Thursday. Some traditionalists have criticised the way that formal debate of the very issue that is tearing the Anglican Communion apart has been left to the final few days of the Conference.

Even then the 670 bishops in Canterbury for the conference were split up into groups of only 40 to talk about homosexuality, and what the Bible teaches about it.

There was no vote, and no resolution. The media was excluded from the discussions, but conference officials acknowledged that none of the bishops had changed his or her mind about sexuality. the rest