House Of Bishops Statement On Lambeth Conference

“During our meeting we have been praying for a “daring charity and courteous understanding.” With this intent and guided by the Holy Spirit, we…”

depose two godly bishops.

We have seen the House of Bozos in their true colors today.

I apologize, but I am cross-posting this with T19.

Lord, have mercy.

This disgrace of a House, after working hard to rip the 500-year-old Anglican Communion apart, has the gall to moan that Gene Robinson, alone among their number, didn’t receive a Lambeth invitation?  They’re partly right: many more of them shouldn’t be going, either.

And yet, these frauds have stood by, without saying a damn thing, while Jack Spong slurs our Faith?  While Gaia masses and clown masses go on?  While the sacrament of our Lord’s Body and Blood is profaned across this province?  While some of their own members get before microphones and lie to everybody’s face about whether gay “marriages” are sanctioned in ECUSA?  While Vince Warner laughs it up over a Muslim “priest” in his diocese?  While Charles Bennison gets away with his antics in Pennsylvania until Schori needs a convenient scapegoat to balance out today’s actions?  While they spit on a Godly man, like William Cox, who has dedicated his life to the church they cavalierly blaspheme?  While their Presiding Bishop denies the divinity of our Lord, God and Savior?

And among those issuing this statement are the “Windsor Bishop” frauds?

To paraphrase Joseph Welch, Let us not assassinate this church further, bishops.  You have done enough.  Have you no sense of decency?  For God’s sake, have you no shame?

Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me, a sinner.

While the focus of this hurt seems centered on issues of human sexuality, beneath it we believe there is a feeling of marginalization by people of differing points of view.

It’s not about ‘hurt.’  It’s not about ‘pain.’  This simply trivializes the conflict and reduces all opposition to an irrational response triggered by the pain of seeing their presuppositions questioned and defeated.  The level of patronization in such a statement is beyond offensive.  This conflict is about competing ideas of Truth.  It remains whether there is pain or not.  And it cannot be resolved by the application of some spiritual analgesic.

carl

“We appeal to the faithful of the Episcopal Church and the faithful in the wider, global Anglican family, to focus and celebrate our unity in the comprehensiveness of diversity. In union with Christian tradition through the centuries, we are willing to face challenges that precipitate struggle as a means towards reconciliation.”

Time for the Episcopal drinking game, as we live into the tension, minding our pluriform truths, that lactating cows will moove us towards a diversity of reconciliation, as we are herded into the Anglican mainstream. Always mindful of the udder, and how by now brown cow being face to face with udders we can together reduce the me thane and the threat of global warming.

Its easy and fun to play the Episcopal drinking game! Just string together meaningless phrases in any random order and you too can sound like an Episcopal Bishop!

“our response is to name this hurt and to claim our hope that is in Christ.”

New game! Name this hurt! Fun for the whole family!

Idiots.

What a crock of Bovine Flatulence Excretement.

the snarkster

Let’s not get too bent out of shape, surely there will be a ‘Camp Allen/Windsor Bishop’ minority report.  I bet they are working on it right now.

I am waiting eagerly for the minority report from the stalwart and courageous Communion Partner bishops.

#7 It is too late for minority reports that come after the fact.  The HoB has done what it set out to do and there was little opposition to the proceedings.  A concurrent report may have been a glimmer of hope, but a group of bishops having to parse words to veil their complicity is useless.

#9. Precisely

With the above HOB statement on Lambeth, we see the last shovel of dirt here thrown on the Windsor Report, the Windsor Process, the ersatz Windsor Bishops, Dar es, Dromantine, practically any orthodox solution…

The darkest of days so far.  Getting close to time to stick a fork in TEC.

I am waiting eagerly for the minority report from the stalwart and courageous Communion Partner bishops.

  Heck, I would have settled for some audible “no” votes.

As I said a couple weeks ago, this is the only chance they will have to prove their mettle.  The usual half-dozen pastoral letters trying to spin this are not going to cut it. 

We regret that he alone among bishops ministering within the territorial boundaries of their dioceses and provinces, did not receive an invitation to attend the Lambeth Conference.

There is one statement that I completely agree with.  I can name at least 50 others who should not have received an invitation.

TJ

I am afraid the spirit that is guiding the HOB (House of Boneheads) is not the Holy one.
AP+

It’s striking to me how inconsequential this HoB meeting feels.  The Left has largely achieved its objectives, and within few years will have expunged the remaining malcontents from its midst.  Tectonic forces have begun to reshape the global Communion, and will not be stopped.  The locus of events has departed to other locations, and what the bishops of TEC do or don’t do just doesn’t seem significant anymore.  The irony will come home to them when the absence of conflict with conservatives dries up all interest in TEC by the MSM.  Then KJS will discover the hard reality that her secular allies really don’t care spit about her opinions.

carl

A commentator on an English blog put it well:

There was no need for a lot of this mess, if LibTEC had learned from the example of the CofE: Acts of Synod for legitimate dissenters, satisfactory protection and flying Bishops etc.

But LibTEC is demonstrating the meaning of Liberal “Tolerance”. It includes everyone… if they are liberal .

Getting close to time to stick a fork in TEC.

You’ll need a jack-hammer to drive the fork through the charcoal crust by this point.

The quote was: “we believe there is a feeling of marginalization by people of differing points of view.”  Uh Duh!  What kind of Peter Pan world do these people live in?  There are and always will be people of differing views that should not only be “marginalized,” they should be jailed.  TEC wants to be all inclusive but do they really understand what they’re saying.  Once the floodgates are opened to all those of “differing views,”  does TEC really know whose waiting on the otherside.  Will they then include the pedophiles, the folks into beastiality, the Man/Boy association and the rest of that bunch?  Because if they don’t, they’re not only not be inclusive, they’ll be discriminating against them.  Are we margainilizing people, YOU DAMN RIGHT WE ARE ! 

Our faith is under attack and those of “differing views” should thank God eveynight that they live in the 21st century.  If they had tried to push this stuff down the throats of Christians during the first reformation, they, along with the clergy that supported them would have prayed that marginalization would be their worst punishment.

There is no turning back.  We MUST separate ourselves from TEC cult.  They are dragging good Christians through the sick mud they want to call a cultural norm.  If anything should be marginalized, it should be TEC.

to be proud of our heritage, and to use this particular time in a holy way by affirming our rich diversity.

It seems to me that the bishops are more united in their American exceptionalism than in anything else.

How many orthodox bishops were present?  Were there any “No” votes on this blather?  I would imagine that the most stalwart orthodox bishops had a much better use for their time than to come.

Some American bishops - those who supported the consecration of Bishop Robinson and those who permit same-sex blessings - had an opportunity to decline their invitations to Lambeth and thereby open the way for other bishops to attend. They could have even offered to pay the other bishops’ way. But they declined. Pity.

12, according to the Episcopal Life story, there were audible no votes.  More importantly, what there weren’t were any votes on the record.  Every HoB vote ought to be roll call.  Full disclosure.

It’s this sort of methane and CO2 production that will doom the ECUSA/TEC/GCC if it doesn’t get the planet first.

Thou shalt not lie/bear false witness.  OOPS!  God didn’t mean that for bishops of the ECUSA/TEC/GCC, obviously.  They have perfected the technique.

...and in other news, this open letter to all parishes in TEC…

The House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church
Meeting at the Camp Allen Conference Center, Navasota, Texas
March 12, 2008

Dear Remaining Orthodox of TEC,

You have been PWNED!  Oh, and… Your base are belong to US!  Thanks for the memories, oh, and the properties, and the Prayer Book, and the theology, and 815, and the episcopate, and the endowments…

Your Brothers and Sisters in Compromise and Confusion
(including the formerly vaunted Windsor Bishops)

In union with Christian tradition through the centuries, we . . .

I think those are called parasites.

“...the Bishop of New Hampshire, we acknowledge that he is a canonically elected and consecrated bishop in this church…”

How come this statement has no mention of the outcast bishop of San Jaoquin?  Or the retired bishop of (Maryland?)?  Or that they are sorry they did not quite get to the business of casting out the Bishop of Pittsburgh?  (all three of whom are, of course, canonically elected and consecrated bishops of this church) Why is there no mention of the thousand people who left TEC last week?

“to focus and celebrate our unity in the comprehensiveness of diversity”

THE PURPOSE OF THE CHURCH

  During our meeting we have been praying for a “daring charity and courteous understanding.” 

Guess they did not get that prayer answered.  If you have any doubt, ask Bishops Cox and Schofield.  Daring charity????

If +Mark Lawrence attended, he’s got to be wondering why he bothered to go through the agony and disrespect leading up to his consecration.

During our meeting we have been praying for a “daring charity and courteous understanding.”

Translated:  we double-dog dare y’all to call our faux convivial meeting as possessing a spirit of true charity and, Listen, our understanding is courteous and don’t you forget that, OK…OK…got that…good