Archbishop Andrew Hutchison has asked three supporters and one opponent of rites for the blessing of same-sex unions to speak for the Anglican Church of Canada June 21 at the meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) in Nottingham, England.

The Very Rev. Peter Elliott, Robert Falby, Maria Jane Highway, and the Rev. Steven Andrews will join Archbishop Hutchison and Canada’s three ACC delegates in making the case for the Anglican Church of Canada. Canada's ACC delegrates are the Rt. Rev. Sue Moxley, Bishop Suffragan of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island; the Rev. Canon Allen Box of the Diocese of Ottawa; and Suzanne Lawson of the Diocese of Toronto.

Ms. Highway is one of the few “First Nation” Anglicans supportive of the recent actions of General Synod. She told last summer’s General Synod her views on the morality of homosexual relations had evolved once she had joined the Church’s Faith, Worship and Ministry Committee and that she had moved toward an acceptance of gays and lesbians in the life of the Church.

Chancellor of the Diocese of Toronto, Mr. Falby was a co-author of a resolution at last summer’s General Synod that asked in part for the Church to “affirm the integrity and sanctity of committed adult same-sex relationships.”

A graduate of Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass, the Very Rev. Peter Elliott is rector and dean of Christ Church Cathedral in Vancouver, B.C., in the Diocese of New Westminster.

President of Thornloe University, the Rev. Stephen Andrews was one of the principal authors of the Primate’s Theological Commission report that found that same-sex blessings were a doctrinal, and not a pastoral, matter.

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