No: Bishop Michael has his eyes on the General Synod, which is meeting in York next weekend. And, with fiendish cunning (his enemies would say) he has pulled the ultimate weapon out of his arsenal: the clear verdict of the Bible that homosexual acts are wrong, presented in the context of 2,000 unbroken years of Christian teaching.
How different, and better, our Communion would be if this man was ABC instead of the current occupant.
[blockquote] The Anglican Communion does not have the structures, the consensus, the money or the guts to police the boundaries of doctrinal diversity. Soon, it will become – at best- a federation of independent Churches. [/blockquote]
[blockquote] Mark my words, in five years’ time, many of the Gothic revival parish churches of our inner cities won’t be offering Anglican Sung Mass at 11 on Sunday mornings. Nope, Friday will be their busy day. And they won’t be called churches any more. [/blockquote]
About sums it up … and I doubt that the gays will find this new group as much of a push-over.