The recent Archbishop of Wales, the Most Reverend Cherry Vann, expects the Church in Wales to conduct gay marriage ceremonies “within the not too distant future”.
The choice of Vann because the fifteenth Archbishop has generated significant controversy as a consequence of her sexuality. Since 2015 Vann has been in a civil partnership with Wendy Diamond.
A variety of Anglican leaders, particularly within the Global South, have condemned the appointment as flagrant disregard for Biblical teachings on human sexuality.
The Most Rev Dr Laurent Mbanda, Chairman of the Gafcon Primates Council, called her election an “act of apostasy” and a “failure in leadership”.
He also said her election was “one other painful nail within the coffin of Anglican orthodoxy.”
Vann responded by appealing, to not the Bible, but to her own experiences. Speaking to Premier, she said, “[I] never heard God say to me, who you’re is fallacious. Who you like is fallacious. You reside in sin. I actually have never heard that from God, and that is all I can say.”
She continued, “Christians hold different views on all manner of subjects, divorce, remarriage, abortion, assisted dying, to call but a couple of. I mean, we usually are not all of 1 mind on most things. And you understand, the church changes its position. It learns a broader understanding of God’s love.”
Vann also stated that while she expects the Church in Wales to just accept homosexual marriages within the near future, she wouldn’t use her position to force it through.
She was elected last month by a two-thirds majority within the Electoral College after serving because the Bishop of Monmouth for the past five years.
Writing to Gafcon members, Archbishop Mbanda called on orthodox Anglicans to “take a stand” against the “relentless pressure of Anglican revisionists who blatantly impose their immorality upon Christ’s precious church”.
“It is with a heavy heart that I write to you of grievous events in our beloved Anglican Communion,” he said.
“The decision by the Church in Wales to elect the Rt Revd Cherry Vann as Archbishop and Primate is one other painful nail within the coffin of Anglican orthodoxy.
“By celebrating this election and her immoral same-sex relationship, the Canterbury Communion has again bowed to worldly pressure that subverts God’s good word.
“For the Bible is evident about those that ‘exchange the reality about God for a lie’ (Romans 1:25).”
He added, “We must confront serious error that compromises God’s glorious and authoritative word on human sexuality.
“We must speak up and take a stand.”
Christian Concern’s Andrea Williams called her appointment “tragic” and “a transparent sign of apostasy”.
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