The archbishop, we can only deduce, is a humanist mole (Barf Alert!)

Guardian Unlimited ^ | June 29th, 2006 | Andrew Brown

[Bishop_Malachi]

The archbishop, we can only deduce, is a humanist mole

Once Rowan Williams had many gay friends, but he has turned against them as he moves ever further to the right

Andrew Brown Thursday June 29, 2006 The Guardian

How did Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, manage to talk himself into a position where he is proposing changes in the church that would make his own views a disqualification for the job he holds? Perhaps it is all an elaborate expression of disgust with the Anglican communion he is supposed to lead. Certainly, no wholly sane person would want to be archbishop; and when the reform, or schism, that the archbishop proposes is complete, it will take someone very strange indeed to lead the resulting body.

This person will believe - in the words of the archbishop's carefully composed statement - that it is "imperative to give the strongest support to the defence of homosexual people against violence, bigotry and legal disadvantage", while at the same time believing that he must support laws (which are what the canons of the Church of England are) that ban practising homosexuals from the priesthood. He will believe that it is right to share the communion table with Archbishop Akinola of Nigeria, who wants jail sentences not just for homosexual behaviour but even for advocating gay rights, and wants to exclude from his communion priests who bless gay partnerships. Yet he will continue to insist that discrimination against homosexuals is "anathema", to use one of the archbishop's earlier phrases, and that combating it is "imperative".

[Bishop_Malachi]

Why is it so difficult for liberals to understand that Christians don't want homosexuals tortured, murdered, or unjustly discriminated against in the workplace, while at the same time refusing to grant them privelages like marriage, adoption, and priestly ordination(when they are openly gay)?

[sionnsar]

ping for tomorrow

[Wings-n-Wind]

The good archbishop must finally decide if he is called to run an organization...
Or....
Called of God to minister and serve the Living Body of Jesus...

There is a huge difference in the perception of these two tasks...

The latter is a holy, reverently fearful and irrevocable devotion governed by the Word and empowered by the Holy Spirit....

The former is merely structure of men, ostensibly engaged to support the living Body...

Yet lately subject to the fickle winds of demonic doctrine blowing through a politically correct humanist worldview.,,, and oft-tending to stray from the Word and deny the Spirit's power

Make up your mind, Very Rt Rev Williams...
You cannot have it both ways...

And you WILL indeed answer to the Master for your choice.

[Cicero]

Actually, Tony Blair saw to it that the Queen appointed Rowan Williams to this office because he is pro-gay.

There's really no reason to think that has changed. IMHO, Williams is merely raising some "go slow" signs. He doesn't want to go down in history as the leader who presided over the destruction of the Anglican Communion. But he also fudges and waffles and never truly condemns the notion of woman priests, woman bishops, homosexual priests, or homosexual bishops.

He simply recognizes that there must be a two steps forward and one step back pattern to implementing this subversion of the Anglican Church. The activists went too far too fast, and now it's time for a pause before the next homosexual bishop is appointed.