“The Windsor Report — A Liberal Response”

Excerpts from The Windsor Report:  A Liberal Response:

"African bishops face issues of polygamy which do not trouble their British and
North American counterparts; rather than impose our views and practices on them,
we leave it to them to judge how best to handle them. In the same way we expect
them to leave it to us to handle our issues of homosexuality. This may, of
course, lead to relativism, but it does not need to; it can simply be a response
to the fact that nobody knows all the answers."

"The church will be far healthier if it willingly accepts the differences of opinion,
and the debates, and engages with them, taking them seriously as one of the most
common methods by which truths are revealed and God guides us. For those of us
who admit that we do not know the whole truth it is an obvious procedure. "

"We draw on our tradition and treat it as
authoritative, but we do not need to be imprisoned by it. Divine revelation and
guidance come, in different forms, to each generation. The church should expect
new insights in the future; it should look forward to them with excitement; and
should be willing to adapt to them, without stacking the odds in favour of the
past. "