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from 28 August to 3 September 2006
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Better safe
than sorry?
Apparently
in this Diocese, clergy and others in leadership are now under the law
and not Grace!
How else
to understand that, under 'safe-ministry' regulations a male priest is
not allowed to visit a female (parishioner) if she is alone. It isn't
all that clear if a woman priest is allowed to visit a male (parishioner)
if he is alone!
So much for
the providing for "widows...and all that are
desolate..." of
the Litany.
Trevor G Cowell
Christ Church, Illawarra
Perth, Tasmania, AUSTRALIA
platcha1@optusnet.com.au
29 August 2006
A what zinger?
Can
you help me bring light on what Rowan Williams, AB of C. said at some
time about his attitude to gay marriage. At a brunch after church today
it was claimed by one person that our local newspaper the "Times Colonist" claimed
that Williams has gone on record as saying that gays should have to "convert" to
being heterosexuals before they could be married.The article also said
that Williams also said that when he was a professor at seminary his opinion
that gays should be able to marry one another was only said "to promote
discussion". Have you anything in your archives that could confirm
or deny that he ever said these words in those contexts. Given the
man's towering intelligence I find it hard to believe that he is as
obfusticated as Ratzinger.
Derek Dunwoody
St. John the Divine Anglican
Victoria, British Columbia, CANADA
3 September 2006
(Ed: This story is certainly going around, and the hatemongers
of the Anglican world are having fun circulating it. As best we can determine,
this story began when the London Sunday Telegraph published this
interpretation by Jonathan
Wynne-Jones of this
interview published in August by Nederlands Dagblad. You can read the
interview for yourself, and read Mr Wynne-Jones' interpretation of it,
and decide for yourself if that's what the archbishop said. It's too bad
that
snopes.com doesn't include this sort of
item. Thinking Anglicans references a blogger who disagrees with Wynne-Jones,
but we can't figure out who that blogger is (his blog doesn't list a
name), and we don't like anonymous essays, so you'll need to go
there to find it.)
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