From The Church Times-NEXT week’s Primates’ Meeting in Canterbury is likely to impose the same “consequences” for the Scottish Episcopal Church (SEC) for endorsing same-sex marriage as those set out for the Episcopal Church in the United States last year.
After the meeting in January 2016 in Canterbury, the Primates agreed that US Episcopalians should not take part in decision-making on doctrine or polity in the Communion for three years (News, 15 January 2016). They were also prohibited from representing the Anglican Communion at ecumenical and interfaith talks.
Imposing the same sanctions, which the Archbishop of Canterbury has insisted did not amount to punishment, on the SEC is likely to be agreed by the 34 Primates.
While some conservative voices in the Communion questioned whether the consequences had any teeth after last year’s Anglican Consultative Council meeting — in which delegates from the US played a full part — sanctions on the Scots are expected to mean that the new Primus will be unable to follow his predecessor in leading the Anglican dialogue with the Reformed Churches.
More here-
https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2017/29-september/news/uk/consequences-for-scots-in-the-offing-when-primates-meet
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