Justin Welby’s address to the Primates can be found here.
I’m not sure I share the optimism about the GAFCON friendliness of Welby’s address; it seems like a groping for crumbs of consolation in a familiar sea of clichéd boilerplate to me. Still, there was a hint of scolding in this reference to litigation:
We can also paint a gloomy picture of the moral and spiritual state of Anglicanism. In all Provinces there are forms of corruption, none of us is without sin. There is litigation, the use of civil courts for church matters in some places. Sexual morality divides us over same sex issues, where we are seen as either compromising or homophobic. The list can go on and on. The East African Revival teaches us the need for holiness. We must be renewed as a holy church, defined by our passionate worship and its content, with every Christian knowing scripture, prayerful, humble and evangelistic. In a sentence, we must be those who are, to the outside world, visibly disciples of Jesus Christ.
Holiness — therein lies the rub. It is possible for an opposite-sex union to be holy; for a same-sex union, it is an impossibility. Unless, of course, the word holiness, like other terms subject to liberal corruption, is reimagined, re-purposed, and redefined.
The only hope for the Primates meeting is for the apostates within both the ACoC and the TEC to publicly confess and repent and that would include returning legally stolen property to orthodox Christians. Any division relating to matters that are clearly contrary to the authority of Scripture can only be resolved by fully accepting both the authority of Scripture and the uniqueness of Jesus Christ.