“[In Jerusalem] we all sat around the table, and pretty well with one voice, we said, we are not leaving the Anglican Communion,” Archbishop Greg Venables, who oversees several countries in South America, said from Jerusalem. “We are not going to break away and form another church.”
There had been talk preceding the meeting of a theological divorce. The group did not split because, Venables says, “we are the true Anglicans.”
“We don’t accept that we can hand over the franchise of Anglicanism to people who suddenly, without consulting anyone, decided to create a new version of Anglicanism,” he says.
Fascinating. Not a… bad report per se. Gene Robinson gets the last word. (Something I always look for in a media piece.) And says “this is not about theological and biblical argument… It has always been about money and property”.
*Snort*. I have a new sample for the OED listing for “irony”. (If Gene Robinson believes his comment then I suggest he is self-deceived.)
“Self-deceived = delusional.” True!