Lambeth Conference Must Not Be Dominated by Sexuality Again, Say Primates

Church Times (UK) ^ | 3/31/22 | Ed Thornton

[marshmallow]

THE Primates of the Anglican Communion are determined that the Lambeth Conference in July should not be dominated by debates about human sexuality, the Archbishop of Canterbury has said. Instead, the Conference will focus on “those things which are destroying tens and hundreds of millions of lives”.

Archbishop Welby was speaking at a press conference on Thursday afternoon, at the end of this week’s Primates’ Meeting, which took place in Lambeth Palace. Thirty-seven Primates attended, including some online. It was the first time that the Primates had gathered in person since a meeting in Jordan in January 2020, shortly before the start of the pandemic (News, 17 January 2020).

A communiqué published on Thursday expresses “lament” at the absence of three Primates “who choose to stay away” from such meetings. These were the Primates of Nigeria, Uganda, and Rwanda, Archbishop Welby confirmed at the press conference. The Primate of Kenya, who has also in the past expressed misgivings about the stance of other Provinces on sexuality, did attend, however. There was also no representative of Papua New Guinea, because the Province is in between Primates.

Archbishop Welby reported that there was a “steady level of informal communication” with the absent Primates, who attended other meetings, such as the Council of Anglican Provinces of Africa.

Asked whether those absent had given specific reasons for not attending, Archbishop Welby said: “Not that I’m aware of. I think they we know very well that they feel, for one reason or another, that they don’t want to be in the room with those who changed their teaching on the nature of marriage and human identity.”

[Jonty30]

Monkey’s word on that.

[gundog]

[Veto!]

LOLOL My thoughts exactly.

[Raycpa]

Could it be abortion, nah.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Not my circus...

[Larry Lucido]

There was also no representative of Papua New Guinea, because the Province is in between Primates.

Now that one needs a graphic.

[gundog]

What happens between primates should stay between primates.

[LadyDoc]

translation: Most bishops from Asian and African countries still believe in the ten commandments, and see the pushing of perversity in the European churches as one more way to exploit their people and destroy the strong family ties of Africa.

In Africa, the colonial system destroyed families by encouraging men to work (often to pay imposed taxes) but gave no way for them to import their wives and families with them.

Also a lot of “problem” sons from the UK were sent to Africa, and a lot of them had sex with locals who had no power to say no: resulting in a lot of mixed blood children who never received child support from their father (under traditional law, the father either raised his child, married the mom as a second wife, or gave money to her father to support the child and help her marry someone else), and alas a lot of boys who were sexually abused by their employers, teachers, etc.

[Sapwolf]

OK, this headline kinda shocked me. Anybody else? LOL!

[alexander_busek]

THE Primates of the Anglican Communion are determined that the Lambeth Conference in July should not be dominated by debates about human sexuality, the Archbishop of Canterbury has said. Instead, the Conference will focus on “those things which are destroying tens and hundreds of millions of lives”.

So, I'm guessing... abortion?

Regards,

[Salman]

The big religious divide these days is not Catholic versus Protestant or even deist versus atheist. It's Sodomy versus non-Sodomy.

"Sodomy" gets a capital letter because it is the name of a religion, not just a sexual practice.