http://sashajwolf.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] sashajwolf.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] djm4_lj 2006-03-22 07:45 am (UTC)

The sad thing is that on those issues, he was in vocal agreement with your position before he was appointed to Canterbury. I think he's become somewhat paralysed by his perception of the need to keep the Communion together - it took him a scandalous length of time to say anything about the appalling conduct of Archbishop Akinola in Nigeria, for instance (supporting the banning of same-sex relationships, defaming a gay clergyman and giving passive-aggressive encouragement to violence between Christians and Muslims), and what he has said has been quite wishy-washy. I think he prioritises that considerably more than the Biblical passages on which it is based actually justify. Where the unity of the Communion isn't in issue, though, I agree that he does usually make a lot of sense.

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