Canadian Anglican leader lauds call for compromise on gay marriage
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Canadian Anglicans will welcome a formal church structure to deal with the issue of same-sex marriage and female clerics as long as it does not include a "you're with us or against us" clause, Archbishop Andrew Hutchison said this week.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, recently called on the church's 38 leaders, or primates, to find a middle ground on contentious issues and mend the cultural divide between conservative and liberal elements of the church.

The proposal included an option to create two levels of church: full-membership provinces that adhere to the majority view, and lower-level adherents with their own rules.

Archbishop Hutchison, head of the Anglican Church in Canada, said in a telephone interview from England that most of the primates wanted a covenant, but said getting agreement on its wording would take years. the rest