The Primates see what Bishop Parsley says is the case, that no explicit resolution about rites was indeed passed, but they also see that local pastoral provision at complete odds with Lambeth 1998 resolution 1.10 is occurring, and they want it to cease in Vermont and New Jersey and Olympia and New Hampshire and Nevada and in the numerous other dioceses where it happens. In the words of Archbishop Gomez, the Episcopal Church has a tendency to say one thing and do another. The Primates wish that hypocrisy to stop in the area of allowing for same sex blessings.

Kendall, doesn’t this also describe exactly what is happening in the UK?  How can the ABC ask TEC to do anything more than take the Parsley position of no OFFICAL RITES and no consents to a non-celibate gay bishop for the time being?
It won’t satisfy the Global South hard-liners of course.  But how can they be satisfied to be in communion with the C of E anyway?

“Bodes ill….”  Well, yes, the backtracking and obfuscation has already started apparently.

But everything is alright, isn’t it, the retirement accounts are still intact and the 1st and 15th still come ‘round.

What has occurred to me in the last three days, is why there is a Biblical admonition against lawsuits between believers.  The HoB has become so contamenated by leagal proceedings, they are now all talking and acting like lawyers.  I assume Bp. Parsley thinks a “scholar” like Rowan Williams will buy into the legal argument, which, presumably, the backward Global South is too stupid to understand.  Proof of the GS’s, especially the African’s, backwardness is abounding in every document produced since Lambeth 1997. It seems conversion still alive and well in TEC, it’s just that it is coversion from Biblical reasoning to legal reasoning.  The law suits are contaminating us to our very core.

“Basically, what I’m saying is that what they are asking is essentially already the case.” HP
“The Primates wish that hypocrisy to stop . . .” KH
The problem stated in 25 words or less.

The Bishop of Alabama remains a consistent disappointment in his statements and actions.  All he is doing is standing for the statis quo.  If everything were fine after GC 2006, why would the Primates in Tanzania have needed to ask for more?

From the Revisionist Dictionary:

INSTITUTIONALIST: Stodgy Progressive. “Bishop Radisch is a classic institutionalist: he calls himself Orthodox, dissents feebly, and serves 815 meticulously.”

“The Primates see what Bishop Parsley says is the case, that no explicit resolution about rites was indeed passed, but they also see that local pastoral provision at complete odds with Lambeth 1998 resolution 1.10 is occurring, and they want it to cease in Vermont and New Jersey and Olympia and New Hampshire and Nevada and in the numerous other dioceses where it happens”...

With respect, Dr. Harmon, you left out DioMass, where even the diocesan bishop has celebrated Eucharist at a “gay society wedding”.  Interesting that the article leaves out the specific nature of the post-Communion prayer used—what would Bishop Shaw say if asked? 

http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=3297

If I remember correctly, the original story regarding the Finley/McGee “wedding”  ran in the New York Times. 

Actions like this can surely clarify the facts on the ground over here for the primates.

And the band plays on…

Prayers abound—

TS