Archbishop Williams' Proposed Covenant
More pointedly, he appealed to 'the North American churches' to stick to moratoriums on the ordination of openly gay clergy and the blessing of same-sex unions, saying their failure to do so would imperil the chances of broad agreement on the proposed covenant. And that, he said, would mean that 'our communion will continue to be in great peril.'
I understand why the Archbishop of Cantebury
is saying such things, and I fully expect him to continue doing such things, playing for time as long as he can, and then probably throwing gay clergy under the bus - but c'mon. Break the fucking Communion already. Obviously Williams' doesn't want to, and won't. But it's a product of another time. And as long as the Anglicans, and for that matter the Roman Catholics, seek a big-tent Church they are going to be drawn to the views of the global South on these issues, since that's where the great majority of most of the Church's members are. And culturally the two regions (North American and Europe versus "the South") are growing more and more apart. This is really just delaying the inevitable. Given where the Roman Catholics are, this stuff shouldn't break them. I mean when you've got Kasper the friendly cardinal, one of the most "liberal" men that John Paul II bestowed the red hat on, saying stuff
like this, it's clear that Church is united. But the Anglicans? You aren't going to reconcile the difference between the Episcopalians of New England and the Anglicans in Nigeria. Put the Communion out of its misery.
Posted by armand at August 4, 2008 11:19 AM
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