http://www.evangelicals.org/news.asp?id=742
[EV News] 4 Oct 2007--The Anglican Communion Office has issued a report, purportedly from the Joint Standing Committee of Primates and the Anglican Consultative Council essentially affirming the US House of Bishops statement of last week. In an astonishing piece of manipulation the one conservative (Mouneer Anis) who had attended the meeting in New Orleans was squeezed out of the drafting process whereas the US Presiding Bishop was included. The ACO is heavily funded by the US Episcopal Church and has for a long time been considered to be manipulating agendas and events in order to promote the revisionist cause.
This latest move adds weight to the concerns and destroys any credibility the report might have had.
The report has been posted on the ACO website should anyone think it worth reading. As we predicted beforehand it is taking the view that the US Bishops did just enough (which they didn't) in order to satisfy the requirements made of them. Clearly it had already been agreed what the report would say and how the US Bishops would have to phrase their response in order to match it.
Bishops Mouneer's response can be found on the Anglican Mainstream website.
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http://timescolumns.typepad.com/gledhill/2007/10/tec-gone-far-en.html
JSC report to Rowan: TEC gone far enough; serious problems remain - Ruth Gledhill-Times
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http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_90678_ENG_HTM.htm
House of Bishops provides necessary clarifications, Joint Standing Committee report finds - Episcopal Life Online
http://www.kendallharmon.net/t19/index.php/t19/article/6602/#more
Leander Harding: Response to the Report of the Joint Standing Committee of the Anglican Primates - TitusOneNine
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/04/us/04episcopal.html?_r=2&ref=us&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Panel Says Episcopalians Have Met Anglican Directive - The New York Times
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