Meeting under the umbrella of GAFCON – the Global Anglican Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans – representing more than 75% of the Anglican Communion, the Primates, led by Kenyan Archbishop Eliud Wabukala urged Archbishop Justin Welby to articulate the “historic and biblical teaching” of the church on marriage recognizing that decisions made by the Church of England have a “global impact.”

The obvious question for the Western Anglican Church is, since blessing same sex married couples is now de rigueur, what possible reason could our trendy bishops have for not blessing - for excluding - committed poly-monogamous threesomes? After all, Jesus said absolutely nothing about poly-fidelity.

The so-called "throuple" worked with a specialist family lawyer who drew up the paperwork and drafted the ceremony so that all three of them are obligated and bound to each other.

For almost fifty years, since 1965, the Episcopal Church and the Roman Catholic Church have been engaged in an official bilateral dialogue sponsored by the two churches. As a part of this dialogue, ARC-USA has produced a number of statements and reports building on and responding to the work of the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC) established in 1967.

Resolution 2013-1 was referred to the Resolution Committee, which recommended to the Annual Council that the Resolution go to the Standing Committee for further discussion and eventual determination of its status.