{"id":37419,"date":"2013-03-22T00:31:54","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T00:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/anglican_communion_institute_conciliation_accord_what_it_means\/"},"modified":"2013-03-22T00:31:54","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T00:31:54","slug":"anglican_communion_institute_conciliation_accord_what_it_means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37419","title":{"rendered":"[Anglican Communion Institute] Conciliation Accord: What It Means"},"content":{"rendered":"

See also the earlier item TEC Witness Intimidation Process Concluded<\/a> to which this responds
The recent Conciliation \u201cAccord\u201d\u009d announced between several bishops and their accusers over charges they violated canons in filing an amicus brief in Texas is a minor event. But it does fit well into a larger and disturbing pattern of TEC\u2019s current leadership. That complaints were filed and charges brought against the bishops in the first place, such as to make this conciliation process necessary, represents gross misconduct on the part of the complainants in Fort Worth and of the Presiding Bishop\u2019s office. It is misconduct not only according the canons as they now stand, but according to generally accepted ethical standards. That other TEC bishops and leaders have failed to protest this misconduct is a matter of shame for our church and for them.
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\nBy and large, it seems that the bishops tried to fulfill their prudential obligations in this accord. But we also emphasize that, however construed, the pressures they were responding to were thrust upon them under duress, by the misconduct of the complainants and the PB\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

It is, furthermore, a strategy of intimidation on the latter\u2019s part that cannot succeed. The arguments of the Amicus brief, and the constitutional reasoning behind it, are now well-publicized and available for all. They have also, to the present, not been refuted in any compelling way by the PB\u2019s office. In fact, despite their paying literally hundreds of thousands of dollars to \u201cexpert\u201d\u009d witnesses, that witness itself is concocted of misreadings and misquotations from the constitutional and historical record of our church.<\/p>\n

Lastly it should be stated clearly: members of ACI will not be intimidated by the complainants or the PB\u2019s office or those who collude with it. Currently, Turner and Radner of ACI have had formal complaints lodged against them in their respective dioceses (Texas and Colorado). Those dioceses have decided to leave these complaints open thus far, refusing to act on them for whatever reason, whether out of desire to leave the threats hanging in the air or out of ignorance regarding the canonical demands before them or simply out of a desire not to make waves in a difficult moment. In any case, the members of ACI are in the business simply and quite transparently of articulating and stating our understanding of the theology and polity of our church, to which we are committed. These are not matters over which to negotiate; nor are they matters about which to fear. They are duties of Christian honesty.<\/p>\n

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See also the earlier item TEC Witness Intimidation Process Concluded to which this respondsThe recent Conciliation \u201cAccord\u201d\u009d announced between several bishops and their accusers over charges they violated canons in filing an amicus brief in Texas is a minor event.…<\/span><\/p>\n

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