The upshot of Lambeth is that the Americans are going to continue ordaining homosexuals and celebrating same-sex blessings and the conservative foreign Anglican prelates will continue trespassing into American Episcopal dioceses on behalf of beleagured conservatives. Nothing really changed.
And I didn’t think I could persuade my bosses here to dump tons of money into sending me overseas for three weeks just to find that out.
I guess one question is, “What will TEC and other revisionist bodies need to do to keep making headlines”? I do think they get much of their energy from that.
Anyone with an IQ over his shoe size knew the fix was in at Lambeth and that attendance was completely superfluous, wasteful even. Like getting season tickets where all the games are decided in advance and declared ties.
Read it all, and, um, click the links Julia provides.
Y’know, learning your opponents are actually more sleazy than you had thought on a cranky day actually doesn’t make you feel better. Or at least it didn’t me. Hope England finds Mr. Mac-Iyalla a beneficial new citizen in “Cool Britannia,” but like his handler, i’m delighted we don’t have to deal with him in this country as a prospective citizen.
Brrrrrrrrrr.
[blockquote] There was one particular blog that interested me, as it concerned Davis Mac Ayalla, a gay Nigerian activist whose application for asylum in the U.K. was accepted just as the Lambeth conference began. (He had claimed that his life was in danger in Nigeria, a country that sometimes deals out the death penalty to gays, chiefly because of the attitudes of the top Anglican bishops there.) [/blockquote]
It’s not clear whether it is Ms. Duin or the Nigerian activist Mac Allya who is assigning responsiblity for the deaths of homosexuals in Nigeria to the Anglican bishops (and the one comment on the [i] Washington Times [/i] website challenges her on this).
With the exception of the problem referenced in #4, I thought it was a good review. However, I would have linked to Cherie Wetzel rather than David Virtue.
I am simply amazed that anyone would claim that the Holy Spirit was at work granting a visa so that an individual could “hook up” at a couple of seminaries and try and land “live one” on some sugardaddy websites. Tragic.
#5, the link to David Virtue provides another link within its section on Mac Allya, to something called ‘Josh’s Blog’; did you go that far? It’s a very eye-opening account of the tour Mac Allya made of the US and more.
Tried to bring up the MacIyalla business on a liberal blog. No dice. I think that they are trying to do a Jim Naughton on it, wanting it to go away. I wonder if they will be quietly tossing the lascivious Mr MacIyalla off the train.
#8: “I wonder if they will be quietly tossing the lascivious Mr MacIyalla off the train.”
I wouldn’t be surprised. Mr MacIyalla was made the poster boy of the English progay group ‘Changing Attitudes’ by their president Colin Coward, who fiercely defended his character on “Thinking Anglicans” against allegations by Archdeacon Tunde Popoola of Nigeria. Now that the progay ‘Josh’s Blog’ has published claims about Mr MacIyalla’s sexual behavior in US seminaries, he must be losing his iconic status.
TACit –
I have read the business about the Nigerian fellow already from some other source. David Virtue is a good guy, but I don’t think his purple prose advances the reasserter cause in the wider world for which Julian Duin writes. Also, I’ve known him rush to publish something and get it wrong too many times.
Josh’s response to Julia Duin is also quite interesting and has the ring of truth as well. Who wants to be interviewed by a hostile and rude journalist with an agenda different from your own?