[jacero10]

This olive branch to the LGBTQ-XYZ community is ill-timed to say the very least. The AC is on the threshold of dissolution with a deadline for TEC compliance set for Sept. 30. Many believe that if TEC is not removed from the Communion after that date, the majority of the communion will break with Canterbury. So reaching out secretly to scheme with LGBTQ community now is a very very bad move for the ABC. He may just lose 50 million out of 70 million Anglicans in a matter of days.

[wideawake]

Rowan Williams is in a bad position.

The majority of his flock agree with St. Paul's position on the arsenokoitai, but he is answerable to the UK Parliament more than he is answerable to his flock - that's the essence of Erastianism.

[The_Reader_David]

I suppose it’s too much to hope that Her Britannic Majesty in her role as Supreme Governor of the Church of England might step in and insist on the traditional moral teachings of the church being upheld. The British monarch does still claim the title Defensor Fidei (oddly given to Henry VIII by the Pope of Rome for an anti-Lutheran tract he wrote before he decide he needed to adopt the above mentioned title to ensure the availability of easy annulments.)

[narses]

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[Dems_R_Losers]

Kinda speaks volumes that this is being done in secret. If homosexuality is really normal and not in conflict with the Bible, why should the Archbishop not be celebrating this in Trafalgar Square? Why the secrecy? Why are the homos tolerating the secrecy?

[elpadre]

it’s hard to believe that the ABC would do anything of this nature, especially in secret. I would question the accuracy of the story.

[N. Theknow]

A secret Communion service for gay clergy and their partners....at.....St. Peter’s.

[marshmallow]

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, is to hold a secret Communion service for gay clergy and their partners in London.

That's funny.

"Secret" to men, but not to God. Not that that's important to these functional agnostics. God has long since ceased to play a part in their lives, save for the obligatory lip service.

The Church of England, the British monarchy to which it is inextricably tied and indeed Britain itself, are all headed for the dumpster, I fear.