Archbishop indicates he will not seek to punish churches that allow same-sex marriage in balancing act
In a letter to the bishops at the conference, Justin Welby said the resolution was ‘not in doubt’. Photograph: Hollie Adams/Getty Images
Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury and leader of the global Anglican church, has sought to mollify conservative bishops around the world by “affirming the validity” of a 1998 declaration that gay sex is a sin.
He told more than 650 bishops attending the once-a-decade Lambeth conference that, for “a large majority” of conservative Anglicans, questioning biblical teaching was “unthinkable”.
