A disconnect? Clergy Consultations and Oi! interviews

http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/index.php/2007/12/14/a-disconnect-clergy-consultations-and-oi-interviews/

[Anglican Mainstream] 14 Dec 2007--In this article I discuss the Clergy Consultation Eucharist of 29 November, 2007, at which the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, presided.

In relation to this, I am also exploring the nature of the Clergy Consultation group, its constituency and ethos, as well as a crucially important document on sexual ethics whose importance Ruth Gledhill has emphasised. Finally, I connect these three elements with content from the now-famous Oi! interview. And it seems to me that there are irreconcilable tensions.
Just a fortnight and a day ago now, Ruth Gledhill posted up the following blog on her very interesting Times column:

‘The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, today presided at a “secret” eucharist for the Clergy Consultation, as we reported that he would back in September … The Clergy Consultation, which has between 250 and 450 members at any one time, was set up in 1976 by three Anglican priests, Malcolm Johnson, Peter Ellers and Douglas Rhymes. Changing Attitude has an interesting paper setting out a theology of sexual ethics around which members of the consultation work today (italics mine). Many consultation members are married, one with six children, and are faithful to their partners. The organisation helps them cope with staying faithful to what they regard as a Christian lifestyle while dealing with a sexuality that sometimes does not emerge until later in life. Some members but by no means all are “out” as openly gay but it is not difficult to understand why, in today’s Church, most prefer to remain “in”.’

Related article:
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/6397
Archbishop of Canterbury meets with Anglican LGBT clergy - ekklesia