As I write, Anglicans around the world are facing a variety of both internal and external challenges.
• Bishop Jay Behan of the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans of New Zealand has publicly objected to the Conversion Practices Prohibition Bill there.
He argues that though it desires to support vulnerable people who feel unloved, it elevates state-mandated values above those of parents. Parents or legal guardians, especially those of faith, will risk criminal liability for raising their children according to their beliefs; it is contrary to fundamental rights and personal autonomy; it presents a false dichotomy that all gender affirmation is an unqualified good and all conversion therapies an unmitigated bad, and will adversely affect those it seeks to protect.
