The primates\u2019 letter had received the unanimous endorsement of the primates, Archbishop Williams said. However, the WCG\u2019s communication was a report prepared by a committee appointed by Archbishop Williams and presented by him to the primates as a resource document; it was not submitted to a vote. Many parts of the communiqu\u00c3\u00a9 refer to passages from the 17-page WCG report. Other sections of the communiqu\u00c3\u00a9 refer to the document on gracious restraint. The sections mentioned in the communiqu\u00c3\u00a9 indicate broader support among the primates.<\/p>\n
This communiqu\u00c3\u00a9, perhaps to a more significant degree than others in recent years, attempts to look to doctrine rather than legislation or political solutions. The primates pick up a theme from the Windsor Report, which questioned whether the Communion suffered from an \u201cecclesial deficit, in other words, do we have the necessary theological structural and cultural foundations to sustain the life of the Communion? We need to address divisive issues in a timely and effective way, and to learn the responsibilities and obligations of interdependence.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n
The Episcopal Church and the proposed Anglican Church of North America both received support, as well as pointed but fair questions about their conduct and objectives. For instance, The Episcopal Church was praised for its efforts to date to exercise \u201cgracious restraint\u201d\u009d in not consecrating any additional openly gay bishops. The proponents of the proposed new parallel province in North America were reassured that they were Anglican, and that they were deserving of some measure of protection from legal attacks, at least in the short term.<\/p>\n