Via The Lead: The Times of London reports on a recent conversation with the former archbishop: “What is sad to me is that we are investing so much time and energy in the subject of homosexuality at a time when the world is groaning from poverty, disease and corruption. God must be weeping.” Just as he opposed discrimination against people because of the colour of their skin or their gender, he said he opposes discrimination against gays. “I cannot have fought about the injustice of apartheid and keep quiet about the injustice of being being penalised for something about which…

Excellent analysis of the Current Unpleasantness! Waste Paper Basket » The Cartoon Blog by Dave Walker [tags]Akinola, Jefferts Schori, Rowan Williams[/tags] 

The Lead "Illiberal winds are blowing pernicious policy and polity changes our way," the Rev. Canon Marilyn McCord Adams, Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University says. "…The Communiqué from the Tanzanian Primates’ meeting brought the intentions of those who dictated its content more fully out of the closet." What delicious use of irony – those intentions are meant to force gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgendered persons back into the closet, at least in the Anglican church. Must read this more carefully tomorrow.  And I like that term "illiberal." It's time we defined the opposition in terms of what they…

Daily Herald | DuPage County Within the next few months, Resurrection members will move to a rented building elsewhere in West Chicago. The church has not decided if it will join a group of Anglican parishes based in Africa and Asia that are forming their own organization, Koch said. A longtime member of the NAACP and a former member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Koch rejects the view that his church’s stance is bigoted. “If I had a family come to my church that were polygamist, we would love them, we would be kind, but we wouldn’t approve. That…