The Windsor Continuation Report to the Archbishop of Canterbury and ACC-14 sets out nine recommendations that its authors felt would best deal with the present crisis in the Anglican Communion. Of the nine recommendations set forward, none of them pertain to the cessation of litigation by TEC and the Anglican Church of Canada. This omission would not be as ironic if it were not for the fact that the text of the WCG’s report does directly refer to the litigation going on in North America. Paragraph 34 says, “”¦a fourth moratorium requested by the unanimous voice of the Primates at Dar es Salaam in 2007 – to see the end of litigation – has also been ignored.” However, when the report’s authors decided to make recommendations as to the “four moratoria,” they dealt with moratoria one, two, and three (on consecrations of bishops living in a same gender union, permission for rites of blessing for same sex unions, and interventions in provinces) but omitted moratorium number four. Why would they do that?
When asked why this “fourth moratorium” was addressed in the report’s content, paragraph 34, but not in its recommendations, the highest level answer I could get was, “I can’t tell you the answer to that question.”
Look under the bed….
Intercessor
The fix is in (wink, wink).
Can’t or won’t?
“I can’t tell you the answer to that question.”
or
“I won’t tell you the answer to that question.”
It’s “I won’t tell you the answer to that question,” Ralph. He’s being disingenuous.
Perhaps in the last iteration, Border Crossings will be the one and only problem listed.
The answer to the question is “u(you)-bunt(as in baseball)-tu(too)” which -not surprisingly- is the theme of colonialist oppression to be celebrated at GC2009 and for many, many years to come in the dog (AC) which the tail (TEC) wags.