“THE Church of England faces being ‘disowned’ by other members of the worldwide Anglican Communion for its policy towards gay clergy. Leaders of some of the largest Anglican churches abroad say allowing gay clergy to register under the new civil partnership act represents the ‘final nail in the coffin’ of the church’s unity. In September they plan to begin moves to suspend the Church of England.”

It is in September that Anglican primates from the global South (Africa, South East Asia and South America) will meet. Archbishop Akinola would likely bring the matter to this assemblage. If he gains enough support, the matter would then be referred to the next meeting of the primates

Apparently several leading third world Archbishops were outraged that some Church of England bishops voted for the Civil Partnerships Act in parliament in a House of Lords debate. Eight voted in favor of the new law and two against.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1715037,00.html

The above brief paragraph taken from the London Sunday Times of July 31, 2005 seems to give some confirmation to the quotations of Alex Delmar-Morgan seen in David Virtue’s website and posted below. It would appear that the full article posted on David’s website, which was submitted to the Sunday Times was spiked although it was probably sent to DV in advance by Delmar-Morgan in the expectation that it was to be published.

David Virtue confirmed the accuracy of the Archbishop's words saying: "I can now confirm that the statements made by Archbishop Akinola to Alex Delmar Morgan of the Sunday Times reporter were totally accurate. They are reliable because they were based on taped interviews."

In these quotes from the website, taken from the proposed Delmar-Morgan article, we see that the most powerful Anglican leader outside Britain has called for the Church of England to be suspended from the worldwide Anglican Communion over its backing for civil partnerships.

Peter Akinola said: "I believe that the temporary suspension of the Church of England is the right course of action to take. The church will be subjected to the same procedures and discipline that America and Canada faced".

Peter Akinola said: "Lambeth Palace upholds our common historic faith. It will now lose that place of honour in the world. Must I come to Lambeth Palace in order to go to heaven. The answer is no!"

http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=2824

A suspension would remove the Church of England from the Anglican Consultative Council which is the governing body of the advisory body known as the worldwide Anglican Communion.

The Episcopal Church in America and the Anglican Church in Canada were recently asked to voluntary withdraw from a meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council. Subsequently, actions were taken at that meeting, which would have not likely been authorized, had delegates from these two Anglican bodies been present.

Now the Primates from the third world are very unhappy with The Church of England. Can the Archbishop of Canterbury be the chief of an Anglican Communion that excludes the Church of England?

Addressing the quotes from Archbishop Peter Akinola in the article written for the Sunday Times, the Reverend Richard Kirker, General Secretary of the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement (LGCM) said the following on August 2, 2005:

"Archbishop Peter Akinola of Nigeria and his collaborators will never formally and publicly move against the Church of England; their new American paymasters led by bishop Duncan of Pittsburgh, USA will not allow it."

"These Archbishops may issue threats and try bullying tactics but the real powers behind the current struggle for power within the Anglican Communion will never allow the African Primates to burn the bridges to Canterbury. Peter Akinola will squirm and shout his abuse but he will come to heel."

"The conservative American Network with their friends in Anglican Mainstream in England are at this moment hard at work writing apologies, denials and excuses for the African and West Indian Primates to put their names to. It will not serve their interests to see the power base move to Nigeria or any other African Province."

"The so called Global South Primates will be chastised, given a bloody nose and told to keep their mouths shut in the future. We have seen it before, when Archbishop Malango gave an interview to Virtueonline at the Anglican Consultative Council in June saying much the same things as we are hearing again now (http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=2660), their American "handlers" gave every reason in the book why this report should not be believed, and Archbishop Malango was apparently instructed to apologise personally to Rowan Williams."

"We can expect the same crawling apologies now from this collection of sinister homophobes who are hell-bent on grabbing power for themselves."

"...one of the questions will be where a new Anglican Communion will be set up"

Here are a few quotes from the interview with Archbishop Malango, on June 24, 2005, mentioned above:

"If there is no resolution and solution of this situation, the Global South will go it alone and we will form a church - a true Anglican Church - and those in the West who believe in the authority of the Scriptures only would be admitted."

"We would invite all those bishops, priests and orthodox laity to join us and be a part of this new Anglican Communion. We cannot be talking and talking and talking. Many Primates from the Global South have gone to Canada and the US and have helped those people who have been deposed from their dioceses and synods. This would be the best protection we could give them."

"It is inclusive of all orthodox groups who are happy to have one voice on faith and morals. Anybody who shares that vision is very welcome to join us. Divided we are lost, united we win. We are heading for the edge of the cliff and we must make a way for all faithful Anglicans to join together as one."

"We shall meet as CAPA Primates in October and one of the questions will be where a new Anglican Communion will be set up. We shall approach that question very carefully. The choice right now is Alexandria. We did not want it to be in Israel....too political, nor any other Middle East nation, nor Africa, for obvious reasons, nor Europe or Southeast Asia. We think Alexandria, Egypt is best as we can trace our historical roots from there. We can then start from an historical basis. The third trumpet is going to produce the right thing for us."