The Archbishop of York HAS NO PLANS to speak out against this bill? Are you KIDDING? How can any of you sit there and not be enraged? What kind of Churches are these? Where are OUR Bishops?! I am one small voice, but I DEMAND an explanation of the silence concerning this bill. If any bishops of the church are reading this, tell me NOW why you aren't on TV, speaking out. How can anyone who supports this kind of legislation NOT be Anathema from the Church of God?

While I am not a Bishop, Clint, I am, with many others pushing on our PB and Executive Council to speak out. In addition we have a GC resolution from 2006 (D005) specifically opposing laws like this, so for my money we have already spoken but need to remind everyone we have.

That ++York plans to say nothing and ++Williams is off slapping the Pope's hand instead of speaking out is a tragic reminder of just how thin the commitment they have to basic humane treatment of glbt folk.

Even more importantly one Ugandan Bishop has now launched a frontal attack on the foundations of Human Rights theory. That this foray is an extension of the opinions and posturing of right wing "Christians" in the US who would dearly love to have the US return to laws like Uganda is now proposing

All of us need to be on the alert now for the forces that wish to return is to the 15th century. Episcopal Cafe has been doing a good job of offering numerous articles about these repressive groups.

What kind of a church are we that we keep electing leaders who so easily make peace with oppression: York and New York, Canterbury and 815 2nd Ave?

Oh, yeh, we don't want to aggrevate the situation. Isn't that what German Lutherans and Roman Catholics said as Jews were shipped off to the gas chambers and ovens? Has the lesson of the Holocaust already been forgotten?

Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams obviously has made his choice (and probably won´t speak out against plain murder until the British Government fully condemns it or the blood is flowing all over KAMPALA...playing it safe is what the ABC does always, for himself, for his sensibilities and for his lack of moral fortitude). The REALLY sad joke is the Archbishop of York, who dodges reporters, grandstands by flinging himself out of airplanes and camps out in tents in the York Cathedral nave...the Lord of York is a Ugandan refugee who apparently has little regard for those PERSECUTED in UGANDA...his full-blooded brother is a Faith Healer in Kampala who has been accussed of ¨paying young men¨ for their sexual services...charges quietly dismissed...quiet as Churchmice the leadership of The Anglican Communion and The Church of England...sadly weak, hard headed, defiant and self-serving at the core...both of these Archbishops pranced around in Jamaica at the ACC Meeting and said NOT ONE WORD about the rampant mudering of LGBT Anglicans and others in Jamaica (the very worst in the Western Hemisphere)...no wonder +Gomez was selected to chair the Anglican Covenant Design Group...it´s a covenant that validates exploitation/marginalizing, and murderous death for LGBT Anglicans...a Jamican specialty well known throughout the Province of The West Indies!

For Jesus' sake, Right Reverend Mothers and Fathers in God, call up Oprah, Rachel Maddow, Anderson Cooper, git on TV and call out these demonic pretender "bishops" on their evil. Such a thing would not only put the EC squarely on the map for glbt rights, but would pull all the bigots out of their closets and force them to explain themselves. We've got to get ourselves in the popular culture, not just on WASP-y blogs, media services and communiques. Let the whole world see our bishops on the right side of a conflict, having a good time taking out the draconian theologies of haters and phobics by the power of the Holy Spirit.