Here is one:
Barry Morgan, Archbishop of Wales: “I think people have realised that there are not going to be any resolutions and some feel frustrated and wanted some kind of definitive statements to take home with them. Part of what this process is about is listening to different viewpoints. The drafters of the covenant will revise the covenant in the light of these. It’s the only sensible way. It may seem a long drawn-out process but it will go to the Anglican Consultative Council and then come back to the provinces who will then decide if it is acceptable to them or not. There is no point in submitting it to churches now, who will tear it apart. The Windsor Continuation group has involved listening to the reactions to the proposals and it will go away and these further suggestions will be brought to the Anglican Consultative Council and then go to the provinces.”
I wouldn’t count on this Archbishop Morgan. Wait, delay, talk, listen, talk more, . . . round and around we go is at an end. There are other options and they have already begun to unfold. Sorry, the jig is up.
I am afraid I agree…things will be processed to death in my view and also there is the matter of our bishops saying one thing and doing another.
At GenCon 2003 it was said that the orthodox/conservatives would make a huge fuss and a lot of noise for a while, but nothing would actually happen to TEC (then ECUSA) and then everyone would just settle down and LIVE WITH THE DECISION (to consecrate Robinson).
So, the liberal rulers of TEC were completely RIGHT. NO action will be taken to discipline TEC in any way. We will “all stay together in generous love”, everybody will keep on keeping on. Which also means that TEC bishops will keep on instructing their liturgy commissions to develop same-sex blessings, and openly partnered LBGT priests — and probably bishops — will keep on being ordained.
If there is no will to enforce a change from this continued behavior in the Communion, and no alternative North American Province is allowed to be recognized by the AC, then the rest of the TEC prediction will come true:
“Eventually they (the orthodox) will all just shut up and LIVE WITH IT.”
So to remain in TEC is to live with their infidelity, tacitly aggreeing to it.
I pray that the continuing GAFCon folks will provide a real, viable Church alternative. There are no options left within the Anglican Communion as things have now shaped up.