{"id":12762,"date":"2009-05-12T16:51:54","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T16:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/chris_sugden_acc_day_14_rules_of_the_game_there_are_none\/"},"modified":"2009-05-12T16:51:54","modified_gmt":"2009-05-12T16:51:54","slug":"chris_sugden_acc_day_14_rules_of_the_game_there_are_none","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12762","title":{"rendered":"Chris Sugden: ACC Day 14. Rules of the Game? There are none"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One can only reflect, that when there is no clear procedure, the door is open for the arbitrary use of power.  That does not empower people, since they have no access to appeal to what all have agreed on.  In this case, when the chairman sought to follow the normal rules of procedure he was trumped by the Archbishop of Canterbury.<\/p>\n<p>The question remains: what confidence can the Anglican Communion have in a body where those who come to make decisions have no given ground rules for how those debates and decisions are going to be conducted ahead of time, but rather are dependent entirely on the will of the chairman and above him of the president to interpret their mind?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglican-mainstream.net\/?p=10464\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One can only reflect, that when there is no clear procedure, the door is open for the arbitrary use of power. That does not empower people, since they have no access to appeal to what all have agreed on. In<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12762\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,62,76,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-consultative-council","category-anglican-covenant","category-archbishop-of-canterbury"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}