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• Gay debate threatening to tear church apart—Archbishop (PA News, U.K.)
  
  
• Evangelicals told to pipe down and listen | Talk less and contemplate more, Archbishop of York tells conference (The Guardian, London)
  
  
• No room in the church: archbishop finds himself cast out by evangelicals | Congress exposes Anglican leader's position as split over gays grows deeper (The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Also: Evangelicals warn Williams on gay issue | The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, opened the largest gathering of Church of England evangelicals for decades last night amid division and dissension over the issue of homosexuality (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Earlier: Evangelicals warm up in gay row | The 2,000 people gathered in a blustery, drizzly Blackpool represent the biggest gathering of evangelical Anglicans for 15 years (BBC)
  
  
• Sex wars in church | The row touches on issues of race, gender, culture and sexuality in a combination that could be fatal for the Anglican communion (Alison Webster, The Guardian)
  
  
• Episcopalians place faith in dialogue | In interviews last week with 53 leaders or senior wardens from Atlanta's 93 Episcopal parishes, a team of reporters found no mass defection or financial crisis (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  
  
• 'Most churches just want to help people' | Down the road from the Winter Gardens in Blackpool, where the evangelicals are meeting, some of their views are observed with incredulity by George Fisher, vicar of St Thomas's parish church and his evangelical curate Pat Nesbitt (The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Church report reinforces gay policy | The Church of England looks set to reinforce its policy on homosexuality by ruling out recognition of gay partnerships, in a discussion document to be published later this autumn (The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Views on spiritual leadership | What is your faith's view on gay clergy and especially placing gay clergy in leadership positions? Religious leaders respond (Los Angeles Times)
  
  

More on Archbishop of Canterbury:

• Archbishop says legal system fails children | The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, yesterday delivered a scathing attack on the criminal justice system in his most overtly political speech to date (The Observer, London)
  
  
• End the suffering of our children, says Archbishop | Says thousands of abused children were being left "invisible and their sufferings unnoticed" (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  

Same-sex marriage:

• Marriage law eyed for GOP platform | Republicans are prepared to oppose homosexual "marriage" in their national platform, Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie said yesterday (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Ethnic, religious alliance backs gay-marriage ban | An alliance of African American, Latino, Asian, Jewish, Catholic and Muslim religious leaders lent their support Wednesday to a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage that will soon be introduced in the Senate (San Francisco Chronicle)
  
  
• Defining marriage a tricky task | For much of its history, marriage has been an economic, reproductive, political and practical concern for the benefit of families rather than individuals (Anne Mahoney, The Denver Post)
  
  
• Let America decide | If marriage is to be radically redefined, the decision should, at the very least, be made by the American people and their elected representatives, not by unelected, unaccountable judges (Marilyn Musgrave, The Denver Post)
  
  

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