The proposal, if accepted in the Communion, would be the first time such sanctions would be imposed on dissident national churches. Unlike Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism is a federation of churches whose head has no direct power over all members.
A group campaigning for homosexual rights in the Communion said the threatened discipline caused it little worry because the committees the dissenters could not work on were “trivial.”
“These are delaying tactics, sops to the conservatives, which in reality gives them nothing,” Colin Coward, director of Changing Attitude, UK, told Reuters.
The Episcopal bishop of California accused Williams of “creating a different kind of Anglicanism, more like the centralized, doctrinalised polity of the Roman Catholic Church.”
“When an empire and its exponents can no longer exercise control by might, an option is to feint, double-talk and manipulate,” Bishop Marc Andrus wrote on his blog.
[blockquote] “These are delaying tactics, sops to the conservatives, which in reality gives them nothing,” Colin Coward, director of Changing Attitude, UK, told Reuters.[/blockquote]
I concur.
Yes, #1, Ad Orientem.
It’s not often that I agree with the director of Changing Attitude, but I fully concur with this candid statement by him. But even if ++RW didn’t mean to provoke ++KJS, and did his best to downplay the conflict as usual, he did in the end hand the PB enough rope to hang herself. And astonishingly, she promptly did just that.
And the overheated, hyperbolic accusation of +Marc Andrus shows a similar over-reaction totally contrary to the cool, ho-hum reaction of Colin Coward. The Bishop of CA (San Fran) goes ballistic in accusing ++RW of “[i]creating a different kind of Anglicanism, more like the centralized, doctrinalized polity of the Roman Catholic Church.[/i]” Hmmm, all this angry huffing and puffing from a letter that’s actually just a mere sop to conservatives that really gives us nothing.
David Handy+