An
open letter to the Prime Minister and the Chairman of the Crown Appointments
Commission
Web posted Friday, 21 June 2002
AN OPEN LETTER
TO THE PRIME MINISTER
AND
THE CHAIRMAN OF THE
CROWN APPOINTMENTS COMMISSIONc/o 10 Downing Street
London SW1A 1AAFrom the Revd David Holloway and others
Dear Prime Minister and Dame Butler Schloss,
As incumbents of larger Anglican churches and in the light of a report in The Times (June 20), we wish to register our opposition to the appointment to the see of Canterbury of the current Archbishop of Wales (Rowan Williams) who we believe has admitted openly that he has ordained a man who he knew had a homosexual partner and who acknowledges that conforming your life ... to Christ doesnt necessarily mean giving up a homosexual lifestyle (Church of England Newspaper 30 May 2002).
Such actions and views fly in the face of the clear teaching of the Holy Scriptures and the resolutions of the Lambeth Conference 1998. Rowan Williams would not have the confidence of the vast majority of Anglicans in the world, who are now in the third world and who, as loyal Anglicans, take the Holy Scriptures as their supreme authority. His appointment would lead to a major split in the Anglican Communion (including the Church of England).
Yours sincerely
David Holloway, Vicar of Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne
and
Mark Ashton, Vicar of the Round Church at St Andrew the Great, Cambridge
Richard Bewes, Rector of All Souls Langham Place, London
Jonathan Fletcher, Vicar of Emmanuel, Wimbledon
Angus Macleay, Rector of St Nicholas, Sevenoaks
Hugh Palmer, Vicar of Christ Church, Fulwood, Sheffield
Vaughan Roberts, Rector of St Ebbes, Oxford
William Taylor, Rector of St Helens Bishopsgate, London
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