The Joint Standing Committee Report: some flashpoints

Published: October 3, 2007, 1:26 pm

Tags: anglican communion, anglican consultative council, archbishop of canterbury, bishops, episcopal church, presiding bishop, primates

Our nominations for the passages of The Joint Standing Committee of the Anglican Consultative Council and the Primates of the Anglican Communion Report on The Episcopal Church House of Bishops of Meeting in New Orleans include: On same-sex blessings (page 6 of the pdf): The Episcopal Church has acknowledged in the past, however, that local faith communities are operating within the bounds of our common life as they explore and experience liturgies celebrating and blessing same-sex unions . In answer to the way in which this resolution was understood in the Windsor Report, it has been said that this statement was to be understood descriptively of a reality current in 2003 and not as permissive, and the Special Commission on the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion prior to the 75th General Convention (2006) specifically denied that it was intended to authorise such rites. It needs to be made clear however that we believe that the celebration of a public liturgy which

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