{"id":11178,"date":"2009-02-09T19:04:59","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T19:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/kendall_harmon_jim_naughton_rightly_sees_that_tec_is_on_the_hot_seat_headin\/"},"modified":"2009-02-09T19:04:59","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T19:04:59","slug":"kendall_harmon_jim_naughton_rightly_sees_that_tec_is_on_the_hot_seat_headin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11178","title":{"rendered":"Kendall Harmon–Jim Naughton Rightly Sees that TEC is on the Hot Seat Heading into GC 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mr. Naughton, someone with whom I am in frequent disagreement on some Episcopal Church issues, nonetheless correctly assesses the significance of the Alexandria Primates Communique<\/a><\/i>:<\/p>\n

The Episcopal Church is going to have to make a decision this summer on whether to remove impediments to the consecration of gay bishops put in place at our last General Convention<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Now there are all sorts of problems with this. He doesn’t mention blessing of noncelibate same sex partnerships, which are also against the teaching and practice of the Anglican Communion and whihc need to be explicitly stopped. And he doesn’t mention that the “impediments” placed were not placed in the way in which they were asked to be placed, nor has restraint been shown by TEC in its practice since (one need only give evidence from the finalists in several dioceses for the post of bishop). He is also quite wrong to say this is about doing the “conservatives” bidding or playing into “their” hands. This is about submitting one to another in the body of Christ, and doing what the Anglican Communion has repeatedly asked us to do.<\/p>\n

The key point Mr. Naughton and other activists have grasped is this: Lambeth 1998 1.10 has once again been affirmed. This is where the Communion is, and this is our communal standard. All the pressure is on the leadership of the Episcopal Church to agree to abide by this standard in 2009.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mr. Naughton, someone with whom I am in frequent disagreement on some Episcopal Church issues, nonetheless correctly assesses the significance of the Alexandria Primates Communique: The Episcopal Church is going to have to make a decision this summer on whether…<\/span><\/p>\n

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