I got a cut back idea: Let´s cancel the NEW supersecret commission on ¨studying¨ LGBT Episcopalians...btw, how much is ¨budgeted¨ for this theological study? What are the expenses that are planned for? Are any of these ¨experts¨ paid? Surely, one of our most recent, and unpopular, HOB´s excesses can be nipped in the bud! How much I ask you for this special secret STUDY?

How much do we pay to be less-than-valued members of The Anglican Consultative Council?

Do we pay more than OUR Presiding Bishops expenses for any PRIMATES MEETING?

How much do we pay for The Lambeth Conference?

Bravo, Leo. I second your suggestions, except for the membership in the ACC. I think TEC should be represented there for now.

The over and above costs for international Anglican Communion meetings, beyond paying for our representatives, need close scrutiny. Maybe the groups could meet less and save costs by having the leadership fly around the world less often, while at the same time helping reduce greenhouse gases.

Who's paying for Archbishop Williams to attend GC09?

June Butler

I think closer scrutiny of all DMFS expenses is necessary.

From my own experience, it's nearly impossible to track funding from GC resolutions, through the adopted GC budget, into 815 and out (one hopes) into expenses that support the Church's mission in the world. Trying to answer simple questions like, "What line item pays for this ACC meeting?" or "Where's that money for that HoB committee coming from?" is an exercise in frustration and obfuscation. For one thing, the most current audited financial statements that the church makes available are from 2007. I know accountants take a while to close the books on previous years, but c'mon--it's June 2009. See: http://ecusa.anglican.org/finance_50019_ENG_HTM.htm?menupage=60833

The joint standing commission on Program, Budget, and Finance agrees-- see this resolution: http://gc2009.org/ViewLegislation/view_leg_detail.aspx?id=708&type=Current

A friend of mine who sits on PB&F has told me that members of this committee are as frustrated as we are and know just about as much.

Jason Cox

Honest. I´m not trying to be mean BUT couldn´t ++Rowan Williams rent a double wide booth in the display/market area at General Convention/Anaheim? Bishop Robinson/New Hampshire had no problem adjusting to that inhumane slap in the face/fate!

Certainly everyone will be glad to greet/meet Dr. Williams there and he can bring his throne for all to see for well-priced photo-ops...there will be a line of autograph seekers, no doubt, he can sell framed pictures of himself in hate crime rampant JAMAICA and also offer ¨Continuing Crucified Place¨ Bumper stickers (btw, who pays/all expenses for the Windsor Continuing Group?), and early printings of his more sensible/readable books.

I´d be happy to ask him his opinion on the ¨witch hunt¨ instigated against LGBT Anglicans and others in Uganda by +Orombi. I´d certainly like to know his opinion on the pending anti-human rights legislation in Nigeria against LGBT Anglicans/others, our families and friends that +Akinola and the CANA/Nigerian HOB´s emthusiastically endorsed? Perhaps he´d share with us about the Gay Hate crime murder in Liverpool (during The Lambeth Conference) which wasn´t a topic for concern or consideration apparently?

So many questions.

I´ll get in line (maybe he can charge for answers to each one...cheaper, buy the dozen and all that).

We ought to have invited Dean Jeffery John and ++Rowan to lead a panel discussion on the REALLY sensitive problem of selective exclusion of priests, both male and female, at all levels of Churchlife!