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[Virtue Online] 13 Mar 2008--Orthodox theologians and archbishops across the communion are still divided as to whether orthodox bishops should or should not attend. Foremost among those who believe everyone should go to Lambeth include the Rev. Dr. Peter Toon, President of the Prayer Book Society USA;, Dr. Michael Poon, Singapore,. Director, Centre for the Study of Christianity in Asia; Canadian-based Anglican Communion Institute theologians; Archbishop Drexel Gomez (West Indies); and at least 25 evangelical Church of England bishops.All have pled for everyone to attend and challenge the issues head on, or face the possibility that the church's traditional Christian sexual ethic - lifelong heterosexual marriage between a man and woman, with a positive celibacy for all others - well may be lost. There is some truth to this that should not be overlooked, but it is not the whole truth.
Archbishop Gomez is concerned that, if orthodox bishops do not attend, it could signal a rebellion by liberal and revisionist bishops who would see this as a golden opportunity to set about reversing Resolution 1:10 passed overwhelmingly at Lambeth 1998.
Even though the Design Team has laid no ground- work for such legislative resolutions American and British homosexuals could (and probably will) push their pansexual advocates among liberal bishops hard and press Dr. Rowan Williams, himself an advocate of homosexuality (within committed relationships), to consent to vote for such a resolution overturning 1:10.
Increasingly, there is evidence that American and British pansexualists are planning a coup d'etat against orthodox bishops, intimidating and cowering them into submission. A watchful liberal press will accuse orthodox bishops of homophobia, if they so much as raise their heads above the sodomite ramparts and suggest that homosexual behavior is dangerous to your body, not to mention your soul.
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