Bishops of the Anglican Communion, a confederation of churches with roots in the Church of England, held their once-a-decade meeting recently and managed to avert a long-predicted schism over homosexuality. Although 200 conservative bishops boycotted the Lambeth Conference in Canterbury, England, other conservatives showed up and joined their liberal counterparts in soul-searching sessions inspired by the Zulu indaba, or tribal conference.
Still, tensions were evident between liberal bishops from North America and conservative ones from the “Global South.” The archbishop of Sudan demanded the resignation of Gene Robinson, the openly gay New Hampshire bishop whose ordination in 2003 was the casus belli of the crisis. A female bishop from the United States suggested that “many of our bishops come from places where it is culturally accepted to beat your wife.”
This female bishop has slandered “our” Christian culture and she should be corrected.
Although it may be culturally acceptable to beat your wife in Reactionary Muslim cultures, Christians do NOT believe that it is acceptable for anyone to beat their wife.
Betsy I agree with you 100%, but this pretend bishopess is an “enlightened liberal” and knows better than us knuckle dragging conservatives. She can insult the leaders of the majority of the Anglicans in the World and sound pius, but to me she comes of as an intellectual racist. Just like so much of queen Schori’s oral flatulence where she says that others will eventually catch up with the intelligencia and enlightened TEC. That comes across to me as so arrogant that I wonder why would anyone liten to her?