An ex-General Synod member and liberal LGBTQ+ campaigner has withdrawn from an Oxford Union debate, refusing to speak alongside the former chair of a conservative Anglican network.
Jayne Ozanne was due to speak in support of the motion "This house believes that the Church of England's days are numbered" but pulled out upon learning that evangelical bishop Foley Beach, former chairman of Gafcon and former Archbishop and Primate of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), would be speaking alongside her.
Ozanne, a Guernsey politician, is founder of the Ban Conversion Therapy Coalition, which describes itself as "a coalition of LGBTQA+ and faith communities and organisations, and mental health practitioners united in calling for the Government to Ban Conversion Practices and support victims and survivors."
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