“The Communion is close to the point of breaking up”, Archbishop Drexel Gomez told ACC-14 in Kingston Jamaica this morning “If we cannot state clearly and simply what holds us together, and speak clearly at this meeting, then I fear there will be clear breaks in the Communion in the period following this meeting. Many of our Churches are asking to know where they stand ”“ what can be relied on as central to the Anglican Communion; and how can disputes be settled without the wrangle and confusion that we have seen for the last seven years or more.”
[blockquote]Bishop Mouneer Anis of Egypt asked why the response could not be by 2012. It was explained that the reason for the 2014 date was that 3-4 provinces had indicated that their constitutional processes would not allow a decision before 2015.[/blockquote]
Would one of those provinces happen to be TEC? TEC would remain a member of the AC whether it signed on or not so why not make an earlier deadline? This may be a case of the medicine arriving too late to save the patient. The debate could have been taken up at GenCon09 but was unnecessarily and intentionally postponed by KJS. Once again it is all about TEC. “Integrity” has connected the non existent dots between the ACI/Communion partners desire to sign onto the Anglican Covenant irrespective of what TEC does as a province and the Covenant itself. They now see the Covenant as anti GLBT. They suspected before, they “know” now. Who has more power in TEC, Integrity or the CP Bishops?
This situation seems to fit an old lawyers’ adage,
“A case delayed is a case won.”
Another 5 year plan for the ABC! Stupendous! Luv, Screwtape
Five year plan?
When the homosexual unpleasantness started in my diocese and we left, my older son was 9, and my younger son was 4. My older son is now a senior in college, and my younger son a junior in high school. We left the Episcopal Church primarily over the fear of its effects of its immoral teachings and practices on our then young children. Maybe one of these days the Anglican Communion in the West will wake up and wonder why there are no families with children in their churches, just old people, and why there is no longer anyone left to pay the bills.