In his reply to Mr. [John] Vanderstar, Bishop Howe said he had not initiated the board\u2019s resolution to disassociate from the RCRC, but that he fully supported it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am, frankly, deeply embarrassed that the Executive Council adopted this affiliation in the first place,\u201d\u009d Bishop Howe said. He added that he would share the documents Mr. Vanderstar had included with his letter.<\/p>\n
Bishop Howe noted that he is a past president and chairman of the board of the organization now known as Anglicans for Life, and he included with his letter a copy of a 1988 General Convention resolution he helped sponsor, which placed a number of conditions on when an abortion was morally permissible for a Christian. Bishop Howe noted that the resolution was abandoned by convention three years later.<\/p>\n