The division within the Anglican church is a result of the church’s failure to make a firm stance on same-sex marriage and decades of disagreements on homosexuality, an Australian commentator says.
It comes after conservatives in August formed a breakaway diocese, which they described as a “lifeboat” for faithful Anglicans who are distressed by the church’s refusal to uphold traditional marriage and sexual ethics.
Peter Kurti, Director of the Culture, Prosperity and Civil Society Program of the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS), told The Epoch Times that the church “wanted to have a bit of a fudge in order to make a living with compromise easier.”…