Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Anglican Pastoral Forum - Lets play Happy Families

http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/2008/07/29/anglican-pastoral-forum-lets-play-happy-families/

[Anglican Mainstream] 29 Jul 2008--Bishop Clive Handford, representing the Windsor Report Group, has offered Lambeth a typically Anglican solution to the deep and serious theological errors which are leading to the breakup of the Communion - another committee or rather a Pastoral Forum.

"Oversight by the forum will be a safe space into which these bodies (which have left their own provinces) can come. They will not be dependent on primates in other provinces. They will have a real link to the pastoral forum. They are being held in trust till the day when they can return to their parent bodies."

He said: "It’s a bit like having a member of the family who is not getting on with the family, having an aunt or uncle who can take them under their wing while they work for the restoration of the family."

Sorry Clive - a rather patronising analogy suggesting the traditional children can’t get along with their liberal parents. If you want to use the family analogy - think child abuse - because the TEC ‘parents’ are abusing their children. That is why GAFCON and the Global South Primates have acted while the liberal establishment are in denial mode wanting to play their surreal game of ‘Happy Families’.

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