In a meeting earlier this year, the Anglican Consultative Council, which represents Anglican churches around the world, reaffirmed a moratorium on what it called “authorization of public rites of blessing for same-sex unions.”
The original text of the synod resolution included language which some members of the Synod said would lead to the blessings of same-sex unions. This, said the Revd Dr James Harris, “will bring us into conflict with the wider Anglican Communion.” The language was later dropped.
The Revd Sarah Rowland Jones successfully proposed an amendment to the resolution which provided that the pastoral guidelines which the Synod requested should take “due regard of the mind of the Anglican Communion.”
Speaking after the Synod ended, the Archbishop of Cape Town, the Most Revd Thabo Makgoba said:
“In Bible studies and discernment sessions during the Synod, I felt the people of the Diocese were committed really to wrestling with the Scriptures and with what they meant in our context.
“I was very encouraged by the way in which the Synod was sensitive both to the pastoral needs of gay and lesbian couples and at the same time affirmed the stance of the wider Anglican Communion, not charging ahead and doing our own thing but rather committing ourselves to a process of listening and dialogue on how to move forward.”
I have read other reports a few days before this where AB Makgoba encouraged the convention to exercise generosity, whatever that means. This synod followed his lead although expressed in the usual mealy mouthed terms. We saw South African speakers at ACC in Jamaica acting as TEC stooges. At the same time FCA appear to be having a conference there on 3 September:
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You would have thought that a country which has seen so much conflict would think twice before sending the troop trains off to the border wouldn’t you?