Anti-gay bishops are after power, not truth

by Paul Conneally | June 26, 2008 at 11:29 am

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Illuminating comment piece by George Pitcher where he explores the idea that the anti-gay brigade of the Anglican community are using it to gain a power base to maybe even set up a splinter Anglican community.

Leadership in the West is “a mess and unable to understand the post-colonial reality”. The best thing to do would be to “dismantle” the western establishment to usher in a post-colonial world.

Who might this be speaking? The increasingly beleaguered Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe in one of his more mild-mannered moments?

Actually it is Canon Vinay Samuel, who was yesterday addressing the alternative Anglican conference in Jerusalem, Gafcon, for bishops who feel that they cannot in conscience attend the decennial Lambeth Conference at Canterbury next month, so long as they have to be in communion with openly homosexual bishops.