The leader of a Toronto gay Anglican group says he would be sorry to see a split in the church but thinks his own life might be made easier if a conservative wing were to break away.<\/p>\n
“I’m getting to the stage where I’m not sure that I want to be perpetually justifying my existence in the church as a gay man,” Chris Ambidge of Integrity Canada said yesterday.<\/p>\n
“I want to get along with worshipping God and doing what I need to be doing in the church,” he added.<\/p>\n
Ambidge, who is chair of the Toronto chapter of the gay and lesbian justice ministry, was responding to news that conservative Anglicans are planning to establish their own church.<\/p>\n
“They have serious theological issues with the direction the rest of the church is going. I feel sorry for them that they feel they need to draw the circle tighter and to circle the wagons,” he said.<\/p>\n
He said his preference is for the church to remain united.<\/p>\n
Differing opinions over same-sex marriage are at the heart of the debate, explained Ambidge, who worships in The Church of the Redeemer at Avenue Rd. and Bloor St.<\/p>\n