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 DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AP) - Leaders of the world's 77 million Anglicans spent Thursday locked in discussion about the church's American wing, whose leader is under increasing pressure to reconsider her support for ordaining gays and blessing same-sex couples.
Leaders of the global Anglican Communion are holding a closed six-day meeting and the Episcopal Church — the U.S. branch — is at the top of the agenda. They were discussing U.S. response to a 2004 report by an Anglican panel that called for a moratorium on consecrating gay bishops and blessing same-sex unions.
"The task before the primates now is to discern what response they want to make to the report and beyond that to the Episcopal Church itself," said Phillip Aspinall, the Archbishop from Australia at the conference.
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