There is so much I could write about the crack-up of the Anglican Communion but just a couple of observations for now.
A short while back, I noted the joke appointment of Archdeacon Kay Goldsworthy as Australia's first Anglican woman bishop, and the stupidity of having a protocol offerring alternative episcopal oversight to those who do not think women should be bishops in a Christian church.
It seems like many of her sisters in the Church of England get the insult (even if they are stomping their kitten heels in the process).
In that same post, I pointed to the Über-Pussified-Episcopal-Church in the U.S.A - that's the fastest dwindling group of Anglicans in America. Here's another highlight.
James (Jim) McGreevy was the Democrat governor of New Jersey. Raised Roman Catholic he openly opposed church teaching and as governor, proudly announced he would not take communion in a public church service. Married with two children - one from his first marriage - he cheated on his wife: with another man, a state employee. When the scandal finally broke out he 'came out' as gay and resigned.
Like all good Americans, he chose to write a book and tell Oprah about his sordid life; this wasn't a one off affair - his was a life of flouncing after lovers in bookstores and restrooms; he admitted using his second marriage as a means to climb the political ladder. Having confessed to the high priestess of daytime TV, and now contesting his divorce in court, while still owing alimony to his first wife - he is crying poor, while presently shacked up with a (yes another) Aussie male lover - a financier - in a US $1.7 million dollar 17 room home.
He doesn't want a job. He wants, of course, to be a priest.
He wants especially to be a youth worker.
Pity his daughters. One wonders how he is managing to pay for his 'priestly' studies given he can't pay alimony. Who, in their right mind, would want their teenager near him? And which church in its right mind would even consider him of sufficient character and virtue to be a priest?
Hint: another part of the cult of upscale Western sodomites and their
attendant fetishists (to use a Mark Steyn phrase). That's right 'the gay church', home of queer theology: not the MCC, but the ECUSA.
