Anglican spiritual head Archbishop Rowan Williams to resign next year

Reuters ^ | 11 Sep 2011 | Reuters

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The spiritual head of the Anglican Communion, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, will resign his position next year almost a decade before he is due to retire in order to return to academic life, a newspaper reported on Sunday. Williams, 61, who has worked hard to prevent the worldwide Anglican community from splitting over the ordination of women and gay bishops, may take up a senior post at Cambridge University, the Sunday Telegraph said.

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Williams has regularly come under fire for his outspoken comments, most recently making headlines in June with an attack on the British government’s deficit-cutting austerity programme. “With remarkable speed, we are being committed to radical, long-term policies for which no one voted,” wrote Williams, prompting Prime Minister David Cameron to say the cleric was free to speak out but that he profoundly disagreed with his comments.

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Oops...meant to say “Cronos, Wright is definitely against gay marriage”...

[Cronos]

got that :)

you know, I think I'm pretty tolerant of people who want to live out their perversions in the privacy of their bedrooms. Do whatever you like, out of my sight -- I will tell you it is a sin, but it is your choice to sin or not. however, gays aren't happy to let that alone. They get civil unions, but they want a Church wedding -- why? It's not a right to get married, it is a Holy Sacrament with God in the midst, hence it can never be between two members of the same sex