Quote of the day from The Living Church:Asked whether her support for the actions taken by the House of Bishops served to revoke her signature on the primates’ communiqué, Bishop Schori responded that she had not signed the communiqué in Dar es Salaam. Her assent had been verbal, she said. Archbishop Williams had gone around the room asking all the primates if they could live with the agreement. Bishop Schori said she told the primates, “I would bring this back to the House of Bishops," “explain it” to them, and “seek the will of the house.”
Asked to clarify her comments, the Presiding Bishop said the “best way to gain a consensus” among the primates in Tanzania was to support the communiqué, however, “she was not able to speak for the whole House of Bishops.”
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Of course, unless she responded with nodding, smiling, and funny sounds, her response had to be verbal - I assume the response was oral.
Note that she is described as having assented. However, this is in stark contrast to her explanation that it wasn't an assent, but instead a willingness to present it to the HoB. Curious.
So if I spouted off some wise-crack about "Women ..." I might have the blog-mistress and all the female patrons stirred & verbally piling on ... hmmm ... I'm packing to leave town anyways ...
Ahh, the word of a Presiding Bishop is as enduring as...a butterfly's belch in a hurricane. Tell us again, Kate, why +++Rowan and the Primates should believe a word you say?
Jeffersonian
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