Anglican leader Rowan Williams has a message for America’s Episcopal branch: toss the gays.
The Archbishop of Canterbury arrived in New Orleans to ask America’s Anglican-associated clergy to stop officiating openly gay leaders. What’s more, Williams wants the Americans to create a self-governing structure to monitor clergy tempted to bless same-sex marriages.
They will be asked to give guarantees that they will not allow the election of any more openly gay bishops or authorise public blessing services for same-sex couples and will create a structure for separate episcopal oversight for conservative congregations who disagree with the church’s liberal leadership.
The two-day, six hour meeting, which one source describes as “volatile”, comes after Nigerian Archbishop Peter Akinola’s anti-gay ultimatum. If the Americans don’t agree to end their gay-welcoming ways, Akinola and his Global South sect will walk away from the church. Akinola’s so intent on flexing his muscle stateside, he appointed an American Bishop to the Church of Nigeria.
Williams’ seems to be discarding his more tolerant past, a move which drew outrage from British activist Peter Tatchell:
The Archbishop of Canterbury has betrayed his own principles and [has] betrayed the gay community by caving in to pressure from the extreme right-wing of his church.
[Dr Williams] would not appease a racist or an anti-Semite cleric, so why is he appeasing homophobes within the Anglican Communion? He is allowing the church’s agenda to be dictated by the voices of unreason and intolerance.
Has Williams lost all his hope? Yep.
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thatguyfromboston
reminds me of Neville Chamberlain’s deal with Hitler prior to the commencement of WWII
Bill Perdue
I don’t know why brother Tatchell expected better from Canterbury.
The anglocatholic cult is a branch, in all but name, of the roman catholic cult. They only split because Henry the 8th was a bit of a porker. He had no doctrinal differences with Rome, except perhaps on the question of exactly how many wives it was acceptable to murder between lunch and dinner. But Henry got all bug eyed and drooley contemplating the mounds of wealth stashed away by gluttonous roman priests over the centuries. And he was king so… he snatched it. The Popes are nothing if not greedier than thou, and the Pope got really, really pissed and excommunicated him. And Lo, in godliness and majesty, the anglocatholic cult was born. Hallelujah! Etc.
They’ve been lapdogs to their royal masters ever since. When slaves were needed they invented racism. When women became skilled midwives and a little too independent they burned them. When population declined because of war or pestilence they burned us as a gentle reminder that population growth is good for crown and country.
Their superstitious, reactionary views are the basis for sodomy laws and other antidemocratic corruptions of the legal-political traditions of the US and other former English colonies in Africa, the Caribbean region and elsewhere. Everywhere they went the English imported racism, slavery and christian antigay bigotry at the point of a bayonet, and extracted wealth.
Akinola and Williams are anglocatholic archbishops. They think the Exorcist is a training film. Like all priests, mullahs, rabbis, ministers, pastors and grand gaseous gumbahs they’re in it for the money. They’re too lame and too lazy to work for a living so they flip their collar around and pass the collection plate. No one should be shocked that they’re incorrigible bigots as well.
Stenar
What’s with the disembodied floating head pic?
commeca
Thanks, Mr. Perdue.
When I was growing up, Anglicans/Episcopalians were described as “Soft shell Catholics who never learned Latin.” An unfortunate number of them are now hard-shell Catholic wannabes who still can’t learn Latin.
It’ll be interesting to see what happens when Willy ascends to the throne and becomes head of the Church of England.
cjc
@commeca: Britain will probably be a republic long before that opportunity.
Bill Perdue
Is Willy the fuckwit who dresses up like a Nazi or is that his bro? Did he do it becasue he’s not really a Windsor but from the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha coupled with the House of Hanover? Will the two of them be foot soldiers and join the troops fighting in Iraq, Afganistan and soon Iran? Or is that just a rumor?