Australian Anglicans work to fight gay ‘marriage’

Australian Anglicans work to fight gay ‘marriage’

SYDNEY — Glenn Davies, archbishop of the Anglican Church in Sydney, announced during the 51st Synod of the Diocese of Sydney on Oct. 9, that $1 million was being pulled from the Diocesan Endowment to fight gay “marriage.”

“We find ourselves being moved in a more libertarian direction under the influence of those who want to abandon the mores of the past,” he said in his address. “Yet at the same time these permissive forces who espouse the virtue of tolerance are seeking to impose restrictions upon those who wish to maintain the values on which our nation has been founded.

“The stakes are high and the cost is high,” Davies said. “Yet the cause is just and it is a consequence of our discipleship to uphold the gift of marriage as God has designed it — a creation ordinance for all people. By so doing, the wisdom of God is made manifest.

“I believe marriage, traditionally understood as a union of one man and one woman, is a positive good for our society. … I consider the consequences of removing gender from the marriage construct will have irreparable consequences for our society, for our freedom of speech, our freedom of conscience and freedom of religion.” (TAB)