Episcopal leaders weren’t feeling very talkative after Anglican honcho Rowan Williams popped into a New Orleans convention.
Williams flew in and asked the American Anglican branch to abandon their gay-friendly ways. While no one knows what transpired inside, Reverend Robert O’Neill of Colorado described the scene thus:
The general posture was simply one of having a very open and forthright conversation. I don’t think anybody was holding back, but everybody was conducting themselves with respect and courtesy and honesty.
Williams’ last gasp arrival comes nine days before anti-gay Nigerian Archbishop Peter Akinola’s ultimate deadline. If the Americans don’t comply, Akinola will continue his unholy colonial mission.
Bill Perdue
The fight between anglo-catholic primates is a tempest in a tosspot.
These fellows are terrified to admit, even to themselves, that attendance in their churches, temples, and mosques is a humiliating fraction of the turnout in the temples of the real giants of the entertainment and fantasy industry like Disney, Sony, Industrial Light and Magic, and etc.
The anglo-catholic cult may become a casualty because of the split, which is really just a turf war between primates. Press reports mention that only 70 or so parishes have broken away and that three dioceses may follow. But they don’t tally up the large number of the faithful who are voting with feet and taking a hike. This trend was strong long before the split got nasty. It’s on a scale that matches the hemorrhaging of the roman-catholic cult following the discovery that so many priests were boy rapers.
The world of priests, mullahs, bishops, pastors, imams, ministers, rabbis, preachers and all such grand gaseous gazoos is inhabited by bungling creatures unfit for productive work. So they flip their collars and proclaim they’re on a mission from god and pass the collection plate. Their ‘career’ consists of combating demons, laying on of hands to cure cancers, exorcizing devils, blessing the armies as they march off to butcher and answering the hot line when the sky god phones.
With those credentials, and with voodoo dogmas little changed since the howling madness of the Dark Ages, it should not come as a revelation from on high that their mocking offers of smug sympathy are a face saving cover up to mask their antigay bigotry and misogyny.