The Archbishop of Canterbury's 'Gay Marriage' Letters

Damien Thompson of the London telegraph and the Catholic Herald continues to cover the unfolding, some would say unraveling, story concerning the Church of England's efforts to keep the Anglican communion together.

On August 7, he wrote concerning the disclosure of letters written by the Archbishop of Canterbury disclosing his personal position supporting a sort of moral equivalency between homosexual paramours sexual activity and marital love.

In his ever popular "Holy Smoke Column for the Times Online Thompson wrote the following:

'Gay marriage' letters could wreck plans to salvage the Anglican Communion

The revelation that Rowan Williams thinks gay relationships are "comparable to marriage" will have devastating consequences for his attempts to hold together the Anglican Communion. American Episcopalians will seize on his leaked letters as the perfect excuse to ignore the ban on same-sex blessings that Dr Williams supported at Lambeth.

Rowan's defenders will argue that, in his letters, he makes it clear that he is speaking as a theologian, not a church leader – and, anyway, we already knew that this was his view, from a previous lecture he gave. Those arguments don't work. The Archbishop of Canterbury's 'Gay Marriage' Letters
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