Kendall Harmon, from the Diocese of S. Carolina. I wish to speak on resolution A-161.
Brothers and sisters in Christ, where is the clarity and where is the honesty? The Windsor Report uses clear language. What is remarkable about these resolutions, and I really want to say this as a general comment to the whole committee, is that for some reason they don’t take the specific language of Windsor seriously enough to include a lot of it in these resolutions themselves. What we’ve been asked is clear. We’ve been asked to place a moratorium, which means to stop doing something very specifically. The time frame we’ve been asked is clear–until and unless a new consensus of the Anglican communion emerges– and yet the language that we get is to exercise very considerable caution, a fudge; it looks like a dance away from what we really feel like we’re called to do.
This is a very serious situation in the Anglican Communion . This is a marriage which is in separation, and it is in danger of having to divorce. And the Anglican Communion has brought in a marriage counselor who has given us very specific pleas to do what we need to do to create the space necessary to create reconciliation. Let’s take the specifics seriously and do what we’re asked to do or let’s be honest and say God is doing a new thing and we’re not going to do what we’ve been asked to do and we’re going to pay the price because this is what we really believe. But let’s not use words in such a way as to pretend what we don’t believe we’re actually doing; in such a way that we somehow play games with something as precious
as the gift of the worldwide [Anglican] communion. Let’s be honest. Let’s be clear.
Thank you.
Huge hat tip to BN for this–KSH
NOTE: Kendall Harmon is Canon Theologian for the Diocese of South Carolina and a Deputy to General Convention.
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