Making Martyrs: Andrew Carey

http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/index.php/2008/03/15/making-martyrs-andrew-carey/

[Anglican Mainstream] 17 Mar 2008--Well, it was hardly surprising that Lambeth Palace, in negotiation with Gene Robinson, the American House of Bishops and other interested parties were unable to find any suitable way of inviting the Anglican Communion’s only ‘partnered gay’ bishop to the 10-yearly Lambeth Conference. The Archbishop of Canterbury offered him a venue in the conference’s exhibition hall - an offer which not surprisingly he rejected, since it was an avenue already open to him in the first place.

Consequently, Gene Robinson told this week’s meeting of US bishops that he had cleared his diary in any case to be present in Canterbury for the duration of the conference presumably attached to the hordes of activists of both the ‘left’ and the ‘right’ who will swarm over the campus, although he was not able to come as an official participant or observer.