Global Anglican ties are under stress. It's unclear if they're at the breaking point

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : But in South Africa, where same-sex marriages are legal, Archbishop Thabo Makgoba of Cape Town, primate of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, offered "warm congratulations" to Mullally.
48% : Mullally has affirmed the Church of England's current definition of church marriage as between a man and a woman, but she supported a plan for blessings of same-sex couples and has acknowledged "the harm that we have done" as a church to LGBTQ+ people.
44% : In Accra, Ghana, Patrick Okaijah-Bortier, parish priest of St. Andrew Anglican Church, said many clergy in his country were unhappy about Mullally, notably because of her support for same-sex blessings.
44% : " Another cleric in Accra, Georgina Naa Anyema Collison of the St. Joseph the Worker Anglican Church, said she supported Mullally's appointment because "I'm a female" yet opposed her position on same-sex unions.
34% : He called Mullally's stances on same-sex issues "devastating.
25% : Uganda enacted legislation in 2023 prescribing the death penalty for some homosexual offenses.
22% : His statement decried churches it said had violated a 1998 statement by the communion's bishops, opposing same-sex unions and describing "homosexual practice as incompatible with Scripture.

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