In their letter, the group ”” which is largely formed from the northern Church ”” said of Archbishop Harper’s address in which he made his comments about homosexuality: “We are saddened that one who is to protect the faith…should so confuse, hurt and divide the people of God.”
The group said that the archbishop’s address had “contradicted the Church of Ireland’s own position,” and added: “We are dismayed at the lack of clarity and the resulting confusion of the archbishop’s approach to human sexuality, especially homosexuality.
“We are painfully aware that this issue has the potential to rip the fabric of the Anglican Communion apart…and we are distressed that the archbishop should inflame divisions even further.”
And, speaking of the recent Global Anglican Future Conference gathering of traditional and evangelical Anglicans in Jerusalem, the group said: “Their conference statement fills us with greater confidence and engenders a greater unity than our own Primate’s speech.
“We call upon the archbishop…to reconsider his position on this issue.”
Apparently the unreferenced antecedent in this [i]News Letter[/i] item is an address by Archbishop Alan Harper on July 4 that is reported in [url=http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acns/news.cfm/2008/7/4/ACNS4419]ACNS 4419[/url] where Romans 1 is cited, by way of illustration, for the Archbishop’s argument that, with Richard Hooker, Anglicanism has previously addressed issues rather similar in the nature of their challenge to our current issues (and survived).
The Archbishop is not compareable to Hooker!!!!