tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23327221.post2351160564234722260..comments2024-03-27T08:46:54.369-04:00Comments on BabyBlueOnline: Episcopal Bishop of Virginia and Standing Committee of the Diocese vote to decline consent for Suffragan Bishop of the Diocese of Los AngelesAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17490745238430648958noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23327221.post-47512857466819219652010-04-14T04:38:50.793-04:002010-04-14T04:38:50.793-04:00of course, the AC is better off without this bisho...of course, the AC is better off without this bishop's sort of playing the long game ('an inch at a time') approach....i.e. people who hold revisionist views but say what is necessary to stay in the AC in order to subvert it..... <br /><br />I prefer the now more transparent approach of the PB (she is willing, it seems, to take the consequences of her convictions and has given up on chaning the communion from within...we are safer in the AC, as a result)Londonernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23327221.post-20277232726807602222010-04-11T22:00:11.320-04:002010-04-11T22:00:11.320-04:00Yep - what anonymous said. It doesn't play int...Yep - what anonymous said. It doesn't play into court stuff at all - the court cares not a whit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23327221.post-43061271015727224132010-04-11T13:12:29.147-04:002010-04-11T13:12:29.147-04:00I don't think it has any relationship to the c...I don't think it has any relationship to the court date at all. The CANA folks won't think much of it. And the Court won't know or care about it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23327221.post-11227341562536882852010-04-11T08:35:56.433-04:002010-04-11T08:35:56.433-04:00Perhaps I have been around too long, but I find it...Perhaps I have been around too long, but I find it disingenuous that the bishop would issue this letter a week or 2 before going before the Virginia Supreme Court.<br />Had he had any conviction to vote against Glasspool, he would have made that clear before the HoB meeting. No discussion in the HoB was going to change the Communion's disgust with TEC over its, once again, going back on its own word. And he would have been in a stronger position to discuss it having taken a pro-Communion position.<br />The timing is terribly convenient.tjmcmahonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23327221.post-10420210715159330602010-04-10T13:34:31.697-04:002010-04-10T13:34:31.697-04:00An honest revisionist? At least he remembers the ...An honest revisionist? At least he remembers the assurances given to the ABC by Katie and Bonnie (they don't seem to remember those!) And remember those Lambeth invitations which were accepted on a certain basis.....now long forgotten by those who attended at the cost of most Anglicans' bishops not being there as a result. At least this man is honest about the assurances that were given....I wonder if the ABC will ask for 7 more years of indabas....or if GAFCON will care much if he does, given it really does not need the distraction of small, dwindling western parts of the AC (including the CofE)Londonernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23327221.post-78817653984421234342010-04-09T21:28:23.628-04:002010-04-09T21:28:23.628-04:00Good point, you have persuaded me that you are cor...Good point, you have persuaded me that you are correct...but on the other hand, I would like to affirm my commitment to my earlier view...and yet I do stand shoulder to shoulder with brothers and sisters who hold views such as yours...so let me, in summary, declare that I uphold my original view even though, in a very real way, I desire to express my heartfelt agreement with your argument...as we know this represents the very, very best of the Anglican tradition.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23327221.post-29904799552249905182010-04-09T19:20:23.112-04:002010-04-09T19:20:23.112-04:00He was waiting to confer with his sister and broth...He was waiting to confer with his sister and brother bishops at the House meeting. Given that the result was announced a day or two prior, you can hardly bash him for that. The fault is that the rest of the House didn't seize the opportunity to discuss it together before voting.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23327221.post-64775888306722798992010-04-09T17:19:27.193-04:002010-04-09T17:19:27.193-04:00Hang on - so he chivalrously waited until the skir...Hang on - so he chivalrously waited until the skirmish was over before taking to the field.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23327221.post-69215054049531482312010-04-09T16:33:34.593-04:002010-04-09T16:33:34.593-04:00Although I disagree with Bishop Johnston, I tip th...Although I disagree with Bishop Johnston, I tip the old zuchetto his way for a cogent, well thought statement. Too, zuchetto's off to the standing committee for honoring General Convention resolutions.Andyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03516444685469895837noreply@blogger.com