Spot on. Bravo! AMEN!

Susan Russell

Well said.

I agree. Unfortunately if this were a simple matter of presenting a reasonable argument none of this would be necessary. There is an unknown factor here that we can only speculate about: what is the ABC really thinking?

With a finalized Anglican Covenant sometime soon we will watch the ++ABC gather into the "first track" of his sort of Anglicanism those for whom homomisanthropy is settled doctrine and a preferred state of being.

Will we in TEC really care if we are excluded from the table where this ++ABC presides with Uganda to his right hand and Nigeria to his left?

From the Archbishop of Canterbury's Response to GC09:"5. In response, it needs to be made absolutely clear that, on the basis of repeated statements at the highest levels of the Communion's life, no Anglican has any business reinforcing prejudice against LGBT people, questioning their human dignity and civil liberties or their place within the Body of Christ. Our overall record as a Communion has not been consistent in this respect and this needs to be acknowledged with penitence."

If he and others are indeed "working behind the scenes" to prevent the passage of the pending legislation in Uganda, I hope that they will be successful. Nevertheless, his speaking out almost immediately on the Rev. Canon Glasspool's election while keeping silent on Uganda seems inconsistent and out of proportion to me.

Addition to my previous comment on the Response of the Archbishop of Canterbury to GC09:

The pending legislation in Uganda goes far beyond "reinforcing prejudice against GLBT people, questioning their human dignity and civil liberties." The response from Lambeth needs to be commensurate with the seriousness of the pending laws, and I question whether "working behind the scenes" is.

I keep waiting for uplifting and spiritually relevant messages from Lambeth Palace and The Archbishop of Canterbury...nothing but nonsense, and muddled resoning...admiring cherished gifts from a pope who lives in the home built by slaves and queers and does witchhunting on his days/daze off to distract us from his REAL sexual internal problems...and a Archbishop of York who has forgotten that he too was endangered refugee from bloodthirsty Uganda and GRANTED asylum in the U.K...he now goes by his ¨Lordship of York¨ and sings stupid songs demeaning GAY ANGLICANS...then there is a bunch of quacks worrying about the sexual appropriateness of what other people ¨do¨ in bed (while of course ignoring their own beastily record of conduct and unmissionary behavior)...who cares, the whole mess ought be auctioned off in England and the many Bishops palaces turned into homeless shelters, rehabs and housing for the tens of thousands of refugees coming from Uganda because of LGBT people our friends/families pending Genocide!

Rowan Williams gives fecklessness all new meaning.

I cannot but keep asking myself why ++Rowan keeps doing this. I really want to honor the office of the successor to the chair of Augustine. I really want to look to him for leadership in the Anglican Communion as the primus inter pares.
Unfortunately, the paired silence on the Ugandan humanitarian crisis (from the country that brought us such bright lights as Idi Amin, I might recall) and his immediate condemnation of the election in LA (where apparently the Holy Spirit has been banished) hurts and saddens and appalls.
I find myself thinking of the scene from "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" where Cindi Lou Who awakens to find "Santy Claus" stealing her Christmas tree. "Why, Santy? Why?" the little girl asks, unable to understand why someone dressed as her beloved Santa could behave in a manner so inconsistent with the clothes he was (deceptively) wearing.
In the midst of so much darkness, we can, I think, take some small comfort in the words of OUR presiding bishop's Christmas message:
"The mornings are dark, pitch black until after most of us have begun our days. The hints of dawn in the eastern sky, those streaks of rose and pink that promise more and brighter light, bring hope even in the dark mid-winter. Where do you look for that kind of hope borne on slim rays of light?"
I do not think, sadly, that there is much light coming to us from the chair of Augustine these days. More is the pity for our poor beleaguered church and world.

More comment on the statement here,
http://www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk/archives/004103.html#comments