Yes Rowan’s a jolly good fellow, but who backs his ideas?

http://ugleyvicar.blogspot.com/2008/02/yes-rowans-jolly-good-fellow-but-who.html

[The Ugley Vicar] 15 Feb 2008--Earlier on this blog I was rather scathingabout the founding of a Facebook group titled, “The Archbishop of Canterbury is a good man.” Signing up to this group means you think not only that the Archbishop is a good man, but that he has been badly handled by the press over his speech on Shari’ah law.

Actually, as Clive James observed on Question Time during the week, he was rather badly handled by the tabloids, but the broadsheets by and large gave careful consideration to his remarks, and mostly came down against him. One of my questions about the Facebook group was its blanket assertion that ‘the media’ “has misinterpreted the spirit of what Dr Williams was talking about in his lecture”, which failed to take this distinction into account.