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Australian Placed on the Panel of Reference

“The international Anglican panel to deal with disputes over homosexuality that have racked the church will include a powerful Australian conservative.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, will today name Robert Tong, chairman of the influential evangelical lobby group Anglican Church League, on the 13-member panel, to be chaired by former Australian Anglican leader Peter Carnley.

Mr Tong, a Sydney solicitor and close friend of Sydney Archbishop Peter Jensen, took a combative stance yesterday, saying that although Dr Carnley had given interviews suggesting how the panel would operate, the panel itself would decide that when it met.

He agreed that his appointment was a significant concession by Dr Williams to evangelicals, who oppose gay priests and gay marriage.

Mr Tong is a member of the national canon law commission, a member of Sydney’s standing committee, chairman of the Sydney church’s property trust and secretary of its theological college committee….”

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