Minns and his friends
Read what Bishop Martyn Minns of the Church of Nigeria had to say at the Value Voters Summit last week. The speech was covered in World Magazine, which is edited by Marvin Olasky.
Olasky's bio contains this illuminating section:
Olasky has taught in the journalism department at the University of Texas at Austin since 1983, becoming a full professor in 1993. Midway through his term as associate professor, he came to the attention of Reconstructionist philanthropist Howard Ahmanson, Jr., who gave him the editorship of the Turning Point series of books via his charitable arm, the Fieldstead Institute. Olasky wrote its first installment, A Christian Worldview Declaration (1987), as well as the Capital Research Center series Patterns of Corporate Philanthropy.This initial work brought him to the attention of the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, which funded him as a two-year Bradley scholar at the The Heritage Foundation. His two 1988 books on the mass media, Prodigal Press: The Anti-Christian Bias of American News Media and The Press and Abortion, 1838-1988 outlined philosophies that harmonized with the Christian agenda of World magazine, of which he became editor in 1992. He was instrumental in that periodical's 1998 spawning of the World Journalism Institute, which seeks to recruit and train Christian journalists and inject them into the mainstream media.
Minns said:
“The real question we have had to face in the Episcopal Church... is how do we separate the values that are worth fighting for from those that are mere cultural preferences? And to what immutable standards do we appeal to make these decisions? These are not just questions for Episcopalians, or Anglicans in the rest of the world, but for all Christians everywhere.”
One can agree with this statement and disagree with his personal choices. For instance, one can believe that homophobia is a cultural preference of Minns, his followers in this country, and the Nigerian archbishop Peter Akinola to whom he now owes his allegiance.
Speaking of Akinola, one wonders what he would make of the Obama Waffles that were sold at the Value Voters Summit or the guys who created them.
Jim, this is the same sort of thinking that is used against Obama. He's close friends with Bill Ayers. Does that make Barry a closeted member of the Weather Underground?
-Mary Ailes
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September 18, 2008 3:52 PM
Were there still a weather underground, and had it the same goals it had in the 60s, and if obama were close with one of its current leaders, yes, it would concern me. I don't hold people's segregationists pasts against them if they have repented. But you folks are in bed with bigots right here and right now. And that concerns me very much.
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September 18, 2008 4:03 PM
Who is it that Minns is not currently associated with? Akinola? Olasky? Ahmanson (an invited guest at Gafcon)? I doubt he would disassociate himself from any of them or any of their views.
Also, who is Barry?
Perhaps Minns would like to publicly disassociate himself from the waffle mix makers.
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September 18, 2008 5:05 PM
Rich of Minns to refer to the problems of The Episcopal Church. Also odd to talk about "immutable" values: few things have changed as much in the biblical tradition and in the synagogue and church since as the regulations and teaching surrounding marriage. Polygamy, marriage to someone as young as nine, divorce or no divorce, no marriage for widowers or serial monogamy, uncle-niece marriage permitted but aunt-nephew not, birth control and oral sex o.k. and not o.k., marrying your brother's childless widow enjoined and forbidden... Oh my, how immutable. Not.
I'm convinced that the "reasserters" just don't know what they are reasserting.
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September 19, 2008 11:04 AM