A Church Times Editorial, “Wheat and tares in Canterbury” and Kendall Harmon’s response

http://www.kendallharmon.net/t19/index.php/t19/article/14726/

[TitusOneNine] 25 Jul 2008--This editorial falls far short--as is alas becoming all too common with this publication--of seeing a way for Lambeth 2008 to make any kind of meaningful contribution toward enabling the current huge mess in the Anglican Communion to become any better. True, it is a matter of working together, and I have long been insisting it will involve sacrifice on all sides.

However, any meaningful step in a constructive direction must include the North American church's cessation of the practice which is precisely at issue in debate. Christians have heretofore considered what Anglicans are currently debating as impermissible and immoral. We cannot have a debate about whether to do something which the American church in particular with ever increasing speed is continuing to do. The way in which the American church has gone about this has been a fiasco for those advocating for this change . The global debate by TEC's actions has been set back many more years than most dare to understand.