Anglican Leaders Agree to Sit Out Key Meeting
The Anglican Church of Canada agreed to honor a request by worldwide Anglican leaders to sit out a key global council meeting, a move the Canadian church hopes will ease tensions over its stance on gay unions.
Canadian Anglican leaders, embroiled in a debate over the blessing of same-sex unions, voted to “attend but not participate” in a June meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council. The assembly brings together bishops, clerics and others representing the world’s 77 million Anglicans.
U.S. Episcopal bishops, fighting fallout from their consecration of the church’s first openly gay bishop, decided last month to withdraw from official participation in the council.
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