(TLC) Louie Crew: Publication of Private Email a Betrayal

But we thank that disloyal friend for the betrayal.  It is nice to be aware that Canon Kearon secretly strategizes with the likes of Crew.

From:  The Crew-Tape letters:
“I have harmed an important leader in the Church and I deeply regret that.”

Do you also regret harm you have caused to “important leaders in the Church” who may just happen to be orthodox members of the Anglican Communion?  I think not.

What they’re truly sorry about is the exposure of their slimy back-door politics.  For shame…

I wonder if it’s known who did the “betraying”, or if it’s all still a mystery.  And how many “trusted friends” did LC blab this to in the first place?

Any guesses on which important leader in the AC that Crew thinks he harmed?  I for one would love to hear him say specifically which one was harmed and offer a personal apology requesting forgiveness.

Sorry, Lou, but that’s life in the Brave New World of cyberspace.  Maybe some day people will learn never to say anything they would not want to see on the Internet.

Wait a minute, Canon Kearon sent Louie Crew a private email message and Louie then shared it with others…and he feels betrayed? If it was a private message from Kearon to Crew, then Louie shouldn’t have been sharing it with anyone.

Canon Kearon’s behavior is also a betrayal to his employer, but I would bet Mr. Crew is unconcerned with that.

Lesson: If you have any secrets, don’t tell them to Louie Crew.

“Lesson #1: If you have any secrets, don’t tell them to Louie Crew.”

Lesson #2: If you have any secrets, don’t tell them to the Rev. Canon Kenneth Kearon of the Anglican Consultative Council either.  If one ever needed more evidence that the gay establsihment of ECUSA is in bed with the ACC in Lambeth (no pun intended, of course!), this whole flap is proof of that unholy relationship.

It is also possibly violation of the Rutgers University information technology guidelines for Louie to make such excessive use of it for personal usage.  The university I was once associated with forbade any personal, non-academic use of their system or internet resources.

Twould seem to me he doth protest to much…..

Lesson 3.  If it is true, as Phil says, that the ABC can be considered his employer, then Canon Kearon, due to a conflict in interest, in all good conscience ought to resign his position.

First, unfortunately, John Kearon, does not work at the pleasure of Rowan Williams. He is hired and fired by the Trustees of the ACC, so he is almost irremovable.

Second, the roles of the job are supposedly principally administrative and ambassadorial. It seems that with Kearon, and, as I recall, with his predecessor, an unpublished role has been that of lobbyist for particular agendas.

The following is from the application form, presumably used by Kearon, when he applied for the post of ACO Secretary General (It’s amazing what can be found by dumpster diving on Google):

  3. THE ROLE OF THE SECRETARY GENERAL
A. APPOINTMENT

Section Nine of the recently revised Articles of Association of the Anglican Consultative Council reads thus:

Secretary General

9.1 The Trustees, with the consent of the President, (viz the Archbishop of Canterbury) and in consultation with the Primates’ Standing Committee shall appoint the Secretary General of the Anglican Communion for such term, at such remuneration and upon such conditions as they may think fit; and any Secretary General so appointed may be removed by them.

....

B.      ROLE AND QUALITIES

The Role

1. The Secretary General and the staff of the Anglican Communion Office exist to serve the various inter-Anglican bodies, and in particular the four ‘Instruments of Unity’ of the Anglican Communion – the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Anglican Consultative Council, the Primates’ Meeting and the Lambeth Conference.

2. The position of Secretary General has two major components: an administrative responsibility as the manager of a secretariat, and an ambassadorial function. 

3. The responsibilities of the role consist of:
a) providing leadership to the professional and international staff of the secretariat;  ensuring that adequate support, direction and supervision is in place for all staff members, and seeing to the effective management of personnel and resources;

b) providing secretarial and administrative services and guidance for many activities in which Anglicans and ecumenical guests share from all parts of the world;

c) preparing for and administering the meetings of the various inter-Anglican bodies described above – and seeing to the implementation of their decisions;

d) facilitating, co-ordinating and encouraging other important inter-Anglican activities and events;

e) giving general guidance to the Ecumenical Dialogues, the work on Mission and Evangelism, various initiatives in Theological and Doctrinal study, and the many Networks of the Anglican Communion; and,

f) working with others in – but not being responsible for – the management of the Inter-Anglican budget. It is expected that the principal tasks associated with fund-raising will be managed separately, but the Secretary General will be required from time to time to play a visible role in collective efforts to raise funds.

Firing by a committee that is highly dispersed geographically and theologically might be very difficult. Some may even think that his unwritten role as lobbyist is very desirable. I have no idea who the current trustees of ACC are, but in 2005, this was the list contained in an annual report:

TRUSTEES

The Trustees, who are the members of the Standing Committee of the Council, are incorporated under the Charitable Trustees Incorporation Act 1872.

Those acting as Trustees during the financial year ending 31 December 2005 were the following:

Holding office throughout the year were:
The Most Revd and Right Honourable Rowan Williams
The Right Revd John Paterson
Professor George Koshy
Mrs Jolly Babirukamu
The Right Revd James Tengatenga

Appointed in June 2005
Canon Elizabeth Paver
Mr Robert Fordham
Ms Nomfundo Walasa
Mrs Philippa Amable
The Right Revd. Kumara Ilangasinghe

Term Expired in June 2005
The Most Revd Peter Akinola
The Right Revd Riah Hanna Abu El-Assal
The Very Revd Dr. John Moses
Ms Fung Yi Wong
The Right Revd Robert Thompson

Bill, Does his appointment have a time limit?

The ABC has all the ammunition he needs to cut Canon Kearon out of the loop, for any number of poor judgments detrimental to the Communion, not the least of which is sending e-mails that he expects to be kept confidential to a fellow who is a big politico in the revisionist camp, and prances about under the name “Queen Lutibelle.”

I think the Bible says it best:

  Ecclesiastes 12:
11 The words of the wise are like goads, their collected sayings like firmly embedded nails—given by one Shepherd. 12 Be warned, my son, of anything in addition to them. Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body.

13 Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter:
    Fear God and keep his commandments,
    for this is the whole duty of man.

14 For God will bring every deed into judgment,
    including every hidden thing,
    whether it is good or evil.

This reminds me of the old blues tune, “Honey, your husband is cheatin’ on us.”  How dare anyone back-stab the back-stabbers!

Louie, poor Louie—with all your years of conspiring, have you learned nothing about whom you can trust? 
Recall Lady Macbeth:  “Here’s the smell of blood still:  all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.  Oh, oh, oh. .  .  .  What’s done cannot be undone.”

Regarding Louie Crew and his indignation over getting ‘outed’,does the phrase ‘producing only the spume of their own shameful deeds’(Jude 13 Phillips) fit or better yet verse 16:‘These are the men who complain and curse their fate while trying all the time to mould life according to the own desires.’

Chip Johnson,

Louie’s blatant abuse of Rutgers’ computer facilities has been going on for years. I wrote to their President in the late 90’s asking who was responsible for allowing him to use what were then immense resources to carry on his church politics, paid for by the taxpayers of New Jersey, and I got a form letterish reply that said “we allow tenured Professors some latitude in their application of the free speech doctrine”. So much for anything but institutional gibberish, and a middle finger to the concept of separation of church and state.

In tomorrow’s Sunday Telegraph, there is a story about the Kearon affair.  The only news was the following about Rowan Williams:

The archbishop last week conceded that he was concerned that his support for the traditionalists risks alienating the American Church.

During a meeting of the House of Bishops, the Church’s executive body, he said that he was sending the Bishop of Durham to the US to continue dialogue with “disaffected conservatives”, which some have warned is against the wishes of America’s primate or most senior bishop.

I wonder if this report is accurate as I have not read of it before.  If it is accurate, is this unannounced meeting before Tanzania?

After almost 40 years of this if you think Louie Crew does anything by accident then I have a bridge in Brooklyn I can sell you cheap.
This serves some purpose, what purpose? Most lkely to harden the hearts of revisionists and gather support for KJS should she need to take a hard line in Tanzania. Secondarily it help’s to remind the TEC majority that they are the ones who need to be concerned with their own church and not rely on Anglicans and their Communion.

One of the thoughts I have had about this is how it relates to B033. At the time there seemed to be a presumption that someone from Canterbury way had assured PB Schori and ex-PB Griswold that B033 would be enough to satisfy the Windsor report requirements.

If that assurance came from Kearon, it may not have had as much substance behind it as they thought.

Can anyone recall exactly what was reliability found out.

Following is the link to today’s Sunday Telegraph article:

<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/01/28/nchurch28.xml>

Try this for the link:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/01/28/nchurch28.xml

During an email exchange with my former bishop who is one of the leading proponents of the TEC revisionist agenda, he stated that there would never be any possibility of TEC being seriously disciplined by The Anglican Communion.  He said that he had just returned from a visit at the Anglican Communion Office and that the leadership there had assured him of this.  Ever since that day following the Dromantine Communique) it has never been surprising to learn of connections like the one between Kearon and Crew.  This is the reality of the situation and it has existed for a long time.

The question is: Whom this day will Archbishop Rowan Williams choose to serve?

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University Computer use….

my alma mater allows students and graduates to use email access and
account forever it looks like:)  Is Dr. Crew retired?  Using the resources
while at work, or at home?

Until recently I worked for Wa state civil service.  We were allowed to ck our email from work (like a phone answering machine) but that was all.

BettyLee, isn’t it true that the Anglican Communion Office is known to be heavily dominated by revisionists?  That’s what my impression was anyway.  In that case, they usually present their own hopes as the actual reality of the situation.  I believe that in this case, the ABC is going to decide to be on the Lord’s side—regardless of what the underlings are saying.  We shall see.

Whaaaaahhhhhhhaahhh!

Poor Dr. Crew, I do feel for you. I do remember it said, watch what you write in email, for it just could haunt you.

Agree with Rocks - this could have been an “intentional” leak.  SInce there appears to be no accountablility, what did he have to lose?  It weakens the ABC, even if the ABC has been marginalizing Canon Kearon.

Well now you know the reason for the leak. No leak, no article.
Ya think ABC will get an earfull from the British Politicians or what?
This is also payback for the ABC standing up against the new law concerning gay “disrimination”. They want to paint him as too conservative and “backward”.

Old Country saying, “The dog that brings a bone will carry a bone.”  Looks as though LC has found a dog -a dog of scriptural weight.

Rocks: I don’t know, I still can’t see who among Louie Crew’s group of friends would have found any benefit in leaking this email.  I don’t think the “any publicity is good publicity” thing is at work here; does this article really advance “the cause”?  If anything, it’s undermining an ally.  This article doesn’t have nearly the amount of spin I’d expect if it were “planted”, and it just perpetuates the damage that has already been done to Kearon.  I think this is a case of someone being unable to keep to him/herself a piece of news that’s just too juicy.  Not Crew - he’s probably disciplined enough to restrict it to people who are genuine insiders, but somebody on the c.c. list got a little careless.  I believe him when he says he was “betrayed” - he misjudged the steadiness of one of his contacts.  “Loose lips sink ships.”

Ben Franklin said, “the only way three people can keep a secret is if two of them are dead.” It is Kearon’s own fault for trusting Louie Crew and Crew’s own fault for trusting ‘a few close friends’.

It has long been suspected that Canon Kearon was the one who gave Griswold and others the assurance that B-33 was enough for Lambeth Palace since he was present for all of the GenCon and working the hallways diligently.  Obviously he thought his own influence was greater with +++Rowan than it truly is.  Kearon also was present at the first meeting between Duncan et al and Schori et al in September in NYC.  As I have heard it, he was quickly told to butt out of trying to broker an agreement. 

As I said on T-19 methinks Canon K will soon be asked by the ABC to return to Leprechaun-land and get on with his life work