Canterbury: The push to seat Gene Robinson at Lambeth Conference failed yesterday after the American bishops declined to force the issue. At their July 21 provincial meeting at the Lambeth Conference the American bishops declined to take action on a request by liberal members of their caucus to ask the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, to seat the New Hampshire bishop.
Bishops attending the closed meeting tell ReligiousIntelligence.com that some bishops pushed for Bishop Robinson to be extended an invitation. There followed a substantive discussion of the Robinson issue with several bishops expressing their anger and hurt over his exclusion.
However, the American leadership declined to take up the issue and a growing number of bishops appear to be distancing themselves from the controversial New Hampshire cleric in a bid to avoid conflict with the conference organizers.
Bishop Robinson was forbidden to attend the meeting of his own House of Bishops, writing on his blog the conference organizers do not consider the American meeting to be a meeting of the American House of Bishops but a meeting of American bishops at Lambeth.
This is good news. I particularly like the end of Conger’s report:[blockquote]One bishop told us that the provincial meeting was very much like recent meetings of the House of Bishops, with the issue of Gene Robinson, and disquiet with the proposed Anglican Covenant generating a great deal of passion from some speakers.
However, he added that the majority of American bishops appeared to be tiring of the focus on the travails of the Bishop of New Hampshire, and were not yet prepared to buck the Archbishop of Canterbury on this topic.[/blockquote]
Gee, Gene vocally stated that he grasped he might be a troublemaker. Now, if he can grasp that in terms of the AC and not just personally……………………………………………………….
From the posted story…
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From John Howe’s letter to his clergy:
From the Statement of the Sudanese Bishops:
And finally, from the definition of a narcississtic personality:
Any way you cut it, it’s “all about ME, ME, ME,” as far as VGR’s concerned.
Wasn’t VGR a broken satelite with a perverted sense of mission that threatened to destroy the earth in the first Star Trek picture?
Not only will certain bishops (read moderates and institutional liberals – conservatives already do) begin to distance themselves from +Gene’s antics AND his rending consecration (if the reporter is correct), we should expect to see a further distancing within the House of Bishops itself. And you thought we (TEC) had been through enough pain already.
RGEaton
Has anything been heard from NH Epicopalians about being disenfranchised?
#: How can New Hampshire be disenfranchised when nobody is voting about anything and no decisions are being made?
No one can be disenfranchised by lack of a bishop being at Lambeth because bishops do not represent their dioceses. They represent Christ, and every bishop is a bishop of the whole church. Therefore, New Hampshire is as much represented in this matter as South Carolina.
jamesw,thanks for answering the question I posed a few days ago (with the last paragraph).