Attention Archbishop of Canterbury: Dr. Rowan Williams you are ¨insulting and patronizing¨ as you pander to murderous Central African bishops

Bishop Rowan, right vs. wrong and his deadly game of religious PRETEND

¨In response to the news that Mary Glasspool has received the necessary consents to become bishop suffragan for Los Angeles, there has been a brief and somewhat vague statement from Lambeth Palace¨:

¨It is regrettable that the appeals from Anglican Communion bodies for continuing gracious restraint have not been heeded. Following the Los Angeles election in December the archbishop made clear that the outcome of the consent process would have important implications for the communion. The Standing Committee of the Anglican Communion reiterated these concerns in its December resolution which called for the existing moratoria to be upheld. Further consultation will now take place about the implications and consequences of this decision.¨

¨The consequences? How about a church that will not justify bigotry in the name of God? How about a church that strives to be a place for all the baptized? How about a church that seeks to raise up leaders that are clearly called by God, without placing artificial stumbling blocks in their way?

Yes, there will be consequences. Thanks be to God.¨

Father Jake

Father Jake Stops the World: Lambeth Response, HERE

The Reverend Canon Mark Harris at PRELUDIUM

¨Whatever his next steps, the Archbishop needs to remember one thing... one little thing.

Asking for "continuing gracious restraint," is insulting and patronizing.

Got it?¨

PRELUDIUM: Gracious Restraint again! HERE

Rowan Williams worries more about Gay Bishops than Murder

¨We knew it would come sooner than later. Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, would surely issue a statement about our church’s consent to Mary Glasspool to serve as a bishop in the Diocese of Los Angeles.

Mind you, he took weeks and weeks and months to speak out against legislation that would execute gay/lesbian people in Africa. Much pressure was exerted on him, and he ignored all that pressure. He said he needed to study the situation and be sensitive to it. He needed months to speak out against legislation that would authorize the murder of gay Christians in Africa. He said he was being sensitive to their cultural realities...¨

My Manner of Life: Rowan Williams Worries More about Gay Bishops than Murder, HERE

The Most Reverend Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize-winning Anglican religious leader.

There's Nothing Regrettable About LGBT Clergy

Archbishop Rowan Williams, the head of the worldwide Anglican Church, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning spiritual leader from South Africa, are both renowned global leaders when it comes to issues of faith. But when it comes to the subject of the dignity and value of LGBT clergy, both couldn't be further apart.

This week, the U.S. Episcopal Church elected Rev. Mary Glasspool to become an auxiliary bishop in the Diocese of Los Angeles. Rev. Glasspool is openly lesbian, and her election as a bishop will make some historical waves. She will become only the second openly LGBT bishop in the country (behind New Hampshire's Bishop Gene Robinson), and the first woman to be elected bishop in Los Angeles.

While much of the U.S. Episcopalian Church welcomed the announcement that Rev. Glasspool would soon be changing the prefix before her name to Bishop, Archbishop Williams greeted the news with cynicism and sadness. He called Rev. Glasspool's election as bishop "regrettable."
"It is regrettable that the appeals from Anglican Communion bodies for continuing gracious restraint have not been heeded," the Archbishop said via statement.

The "restraint" that Archbishop Williams references is his desire to see the U.S. Episcopalian Church hold off on electing openly LGBT bishops. It's a hot-button issue, he contends, that is dividing the Church in ways that may shatter the Church's global cohesion.

At least that's one way of looking at it. Another way of looking at it would be that Rev. Glasspool brings a range of talents and gifts as Bishop that have absolutely nothing to do with her sexual orientation. Should she be punished simply because of who she loves?

And that's where Archbishop Desmond Tutu comes in. Last week, in a question and answers jam session with TIME Magazine, Tutu said that LGBT clergy offer the Church a vast array of gifts. Tutu said it was his duty as a person of faith to support them.

"If I don't support them, why support the appointment of any other person? Their sexuality is as much a part of who they are as my race is. They don't choose it. I don't choose it," Tutu said.

What a teachable moment. While the leader of the worldwide Anglican Church greets the news of a lesbian bishop by issuing a statement of regret, Tutu takes sexual orientation off the table, and boils us all down to our common basic humanity. And when you view everyone through that lens, what does it matter whether they are gay, straight, black, white, male or female?

Meanwhile, the official bishop of Los Angeles, Rt. Rev. J. Jon Bruno, challenged Archbishop Williams' assertion that Rev. Mary Glasspool would be a huge regret for the Church. Instead, Bruno said that God works in mysterious ways. And sometimes those ways are by bringing openly gay people to the seats of power within our institutions.

"I'm overjoyed," Bruno said. "We're going to go ahead with a fabulous ordination and consecration ... and we're going to celebrate the fact that just action has occurred." He then added that it might just be the Holy Spirit's doing, placing Rev. Glasspool in a position of church leadership, with the blessing of most of her U.S. peers.

There's simply nothing regrettable about seeing LGBT clergy become more prominent in houses of faith across this country, and throughout the globe. The only thing regrettable is that in some corners of the world, religious folks would rather focus on who a person loves rather than who a person is.¨ HERE

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Lionel Deimel, HERO, click HERE,¨No Anglican Covenant¨

+ROWAN WILLIAMS ALERT: We´ve spent lifetimes listening to evil launched against LGBT Anglicans/others--stop it now! UPDATED 12/13/09

Dr. Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, The Anglican Communion

·A Open Letter to ++Rowan·Expanded Saturday December 12th and Sunday, December 13th 2009·

Dear Dr. Williams,

I´m not the silent type any longer. I´ve spent decades listening to the bull-crap launched against LGBT Episcopalian/Anglicans and others. I´ve been guilty of listening quietly as friends were verbally assassinated, abused physically and discriminated against...I´ve been known to be a coward, that is, until my beloved loved one of fourteen years was murdered in a crime of hate eleven years ago.

On All Saints day, just past, I took another flowered cross to his tomb.

I´m no longer a coward. I stopped acting like you and ¨being¨ like you over a decade ago. I started taking responsibility for my personal ¨beliving¨ as well as my religious ¨thinking¨ and my everyday actions (especially the ones that harm others directly or indirectly).

As an Episcopalian/Anglican Gay person I suggest that you immediately QUIT taking POTSHOTS at OUR worthy and honorable LGBT sisters and brothers at the BODY of CHRIST...somehow you seem to imagine US to be defiant/noisy rebels and less pius/holy than you. We aren´t very holy I imagine by zealot or snobbish standards, but, in fact, we may be a step ahead in the substantial unanimity holiplace by being in complete agreement with most everyone as the holy spirit worked her way at the convention of the diocese of Los Angeles and beyond at The Episcopal Church/Anglican Communion...you know, Bishop Rowan, WHERE THE PEOPLE ARE! When unanimous, everybody is of same ¨informed¨ mind and acting together as one at The Body of Christ without being threatened or intimidated by pontificating preachers with sometimes less-than-perfect/pure hidden personal flawed character driven agendas.

Many sacred fellowships consider unanimous decisions a sign of agreement, solidarity, and not only UNITY but the very voice of God...often, explanations, personal sharing, questioning (self and others) and the answering of ¨sensitive¨ subjects needs to be done to arrive at such a spiritually healthy and holy place as understanding one another, and Gods ¨will¨ for us with better clarity...it´s a process for us and process of healing and growing...it´s informed unanimity and it can´t ever be bulldozed into ¨being¨ by a private club of some +selfserving/selfrighteous elitists and a handful of superstitious/dangerous Primates who refuse to listen to anything but the sound of their own tiresome demanding voices. It´s about caring about others enough to listen to them and learn from them...it´s humility in action.

Please start paying attention to the REALITY of those of us ¨others¨ who love God and also love our neighbors in the spirit of gladness and UNITY in everyday life. Please stop abusing Episcopalian/Anglicans, please stop being snide to Americans and LGBT Christians everywhere...stop it now and start lifting up your head.

These small, but important, REAL actions of ¨informed¨ positiveness resulting in UNITY are being worked out on a person to person basis often with healthy minded non-despotic spiritual guidance and leadership...enlightenment IS occuring. The kind of enlightenment that has been ignored by several religious extremist PRIMATES and by you personally/recently...you, a teacher, a previously trusted leader, a knowledgeable man, a force that aims for wholeness..it is YOU that must make yourself more clear, and be more self-honest and learn how to say NO to bigotry, convulting truth and the generating exclusion at ALL levels of Anglican Communion life.

We´re not afraid to TRUST God and follow Gods ¨will¨ for us and that is the path that we are on...join us, put your fears aside and follow the ministry of inclusion that you once championed.

Dr. Williams, along the lines of playing PRETEND and operating in a quasi-spiritual WORLD of DENIAL and INTIMIDATION (that would be, as opposed to living in reality and recognizing that we ALL need spiritual counseling and help with our individual character/sin ¨issues¨ as those ¨issues¨ and ¨choice making¨ are presented to us in our Christian lives) I have some things to get off my chest.

·I will tell you that playing giftie exchange and kissyface with the current, and dangerous/manipulative, bishop of Rome is disgusting, distracting, seemingly ecumenically supportive but way beneath your honorable station to STAND with ALL ANGLICANS as Archbishop of Canterbury.

·Your insulting, silent=codependent=snitty=cowardly rejection of The Right Reverend Eva Brunne´s consecration as Bishop of Stockholm, The Church of Sweden, was a ¨perverted¨ action and misguided Church political scheming.

Physical Actions/non-action, done by you, Archbishop of Canterbury, that are NOT loving, not manly, not attractive or honorable/desireable when seeking to LOVE GOD and Gods marginalized.

You were chosen, by the British, to be our most visiable spiritual leader at The Anglican Communion. YOU have chosen to be a leader who shows great weakness while hiding and covering yourself in some kind of lofty intellectual selective scriptural/Church traditional overgarbed PAGENTRY that has NOTHING to do with being of service to those of us who LOOK FOR spiritual guidance and HELP at the Anglican Communion...that would be those of us in the everyday trenches of life who reach for spiritual guidance that will allow us to serve where we are badly needed (and wanted). You know, the laity, the common person, the frocked and unfrocked clergy serving one another whenever/wherever we can.

LGBT and Heterosexual Anglican/Christian/other lives were/are in danger.

In Jamaica DURING the ACC Meeting (Jamaica IS the murder hate crime capital of the Western Hemisphere) you ignored the grief around you, you denied the vileness and unhealty hate and remained speechless/silent in respect to the unjust bloodletting all around you as you pushed for more PUNISHMENT in the content of Part 4, Anglican Communion Covenant (a invention of dangerous Bishop Gomez, retired Primate of the hate/fear encouraged Province of West Indies/Jamaica).

Many LGBT Anglicans/others have been killed this year and last including in England (a large increase this year) and even Michael Causners bludgeoned to death murder, at Liverpool and DURING The Lambeth Conference (went ignored by you as you chatted on and on and on about things that most of us couldn´t understand but knew encouraged yet MORE power for Bishops who have yet to prove their worthiness on the subjects of Unity, Gods Love/Loving thy neighbor and World Peace) that you hosted while excluding +Gene Robinson of The Episcopal Church.

+Rowan, what many see in you, I think--although this letter is ONLY from me and reveals my thoughts about you--is a privileged ¨first amongst us¨ person who REFUSES to USE your Godgiven intellect/good sense and skills for educating and the enlightening ALL of the WE and faithful others.

·You have chosen the softer, yet more hardheaded, way, while no doubt using some kind of codependent compassionate thinking/logic that would keep the less educated unchallenged/unruffled and less called to ¨listening¨ as a sign of disrespectful respect on your part.

·You enable continous loyalty=encouragement to Provincial +despots who ignore or plot destruction against you (Nigerian/Ugandan Gafcon·FREEBEE· meet-up/conning fab comes to mind as the same disrespectful ¨+operators¨ boycotted The Lambeth Conference) and others of us at The Anglican Communion. You have found your very own version of a ¨crucified place¨ and I think it is time for you to climb down and start leading us into a NEW Anglican/other world era of gracious acceptance of others filled with PEACE and UNITY

You´ve had many ¨wake up¨ calls, yet you are drowzy when confronted by the REAL abusers and exploiters of others.

You have shown absolute arrogance to Episcopalians and exhibited little respect for our polity (and generally Anglicans in The Western Hemisphere and parts of the U.K.) and our Bishop V.Gene Robinson of New Hampshire. You pander to those who would kill, jail and castigate him, me and tens of thousands of others (ramrodding +Drexels Covenant Inquisition) as they/we reach out to serve God at ALL levels of Public and Churchlife (regardless of what you, +Akinola, +Orombi, +Gomez may think OUR TRUE character/integrity and ¨holy¨ worth actually IS).

YOU have judged us without knowing us, you have just now attempted to violate the spiritual worthiness of one of our Bishop-elect. You have turned your head to NOT see the dishonesty amongst some of the PRIMATES and the vicious excluders. You have played favorites.

You have played PRETEND when overwhelmed with obvious bigotry running rampant at various parts of The Anglican Communion where OUR PEOPLE are abused, harmed and live in constant fear and dread for their LIVES.

You, +Rowan, have taken the Commandments and reshaped them for what you think your immediate need of them may be...you keep conservatives and their hate/exclusion alive while avoiding those who EMBRACE everyone including the excluders. Again, your way is not humble, your way lacks humility as others are abused...it is not up to you to make decisions, or NOT TAKE THEM, that ultimately may KILL OTHER Anglicans. Often REAL ANGLICANS are abused because of your inability to speak out TRUTH and object OPENLY to LIES against other human beings...you attempt to save ¨face¨ while pushing other ¨faces¨ down and into the mud because WE don´t do as you threaten that we must commit to do to make your life easier.

Building love, tolerance and acceptance for one another is hard work!

You have drifted far away from the great challenge.

+Rowan Williams, leave off attacking The Reverend Canon Mary Douglas Glasspool, her person, her confirmation and her consecration (unless invited or you show some willingness to become a full fledged welcoming Anglican)...you have already attempted to contaminate her election. Please STOP trying to infect others with your little Faith in LGBT people as proven by your shabby treatment of OUR brother The Very Reverend Jeffery John.

It is clear to me, as I speak only for me, that you are a untrustworthy spiritual counselor nor a real friend in Christ for ALL Episcopalians/Anglicans at The Body of Christ. You´ve taken the easy way, even when frowning your ¨understanding¨, and have harmed true Communion fellowship wherever you go by NOT SPEAKING OUT against greed, theiving, lies and the true responsible acts of love/inclusion at the Communion...you have NOT helped feed the flock with wisdom for moral gain...you have sometimes allowed inhumane acts of superstitiousness to reign, ignored. Repent your wrong doing, it´s not too late (for any of us).

Lord have mercy on ALL of us at The Anglican Communion

Woe to you American Christians! You say I'm the "son of God" and yet you bully the defenseless in my name.

Open Letter from Jesus to ¨Christian America¨


¨You American Christians utterly defaced the name of Christianity with your racism, your slavery and your bigotry against women.

And now you're doing it again in your war against gay men and women and in your war against the poor who have no health care.

Some of you even have had it as part of your wicked program to reestablish the Biblical law demanding death to gay people that I clearly showed must be broken by the greater law of love.¨


Do you understand the parable of the Good Samaritan?

Let me refresh your memory:

One day an expert in religious law stood up to test Jesus by asking him this question: “Teacher, what should I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus replied, “What does the law of Moses say? How do you read it?” The man answered, “‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your strength, and all your mind.’ And, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’” “Right!” Jesus told him. “Do this and you will live!” The man wanted to justify his actions, so he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

Some of the Ugandan ¨oppressed¨ are in grave danger of GENOCIDE. Many American religious fundamentalist/zealot Christians are exporting fear/hatedriven lies, bigotry and MONEY for corrupting Clergy Leaders and Members of Parliament in UGANDA. HERE

¨In case you missed the point of that parable as I'm quoted as telling it in the book of Luke it was that the theologically correct evangelical born-again "saved" passed by on the other side of the road when confronted with a human being in need. It was the "unsaved" theologically incorrect foreigner, today's equivalent of your atheists or Muslims or gay men and women, the unloved and the outcast, who stopped and did my Father's will and took care of the injured man.¨

Archbishop Rowan Williams, The Anglican Communion. Please help Episcopalians in America care for the ¨least of these¨ and speak out against crimes of hate, prejudice and discrimination in American, Jamaica, England and UGANDA. Dr. Williams you´ve lost moral authority with your gross sin of silence/inaction and looking the other way in the face of International thieving, greed and bloodshed generated at The Anglican Communion

¨Put it another way: Did you miss the point when I said that those who come to me saying "Lord, Lord we followed you and believed correctly" are the very ones that I will cast out of the Kingdom of Heaven, since they did not care for the least of these, the downtrodden, the poor and the oppressed?¨ Refresh your understanding of ‘Love your neighbor as yourself’ HERE

UPDATE: US Christians Denounce Gay Hate in Uganda

¨Our Christian faith recognizes violence, harassment and unjust treatment of any human being as a betrayal of Jesus’ commandment to love our neighbors as ourselves. As followers of the teachings of Christ, we must express profound dismay at a bill currently before the Parliament in Uganda. The “Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2009″ would enforce lifetime prison sentences and in some cases the death penalty for homosexual behavior, as well as punish citizens for not reporting their gay and lesbian neighbors to the authorities.

As Americans, some may wonder why we are raising our voices to oppose a measure proposed in a nation so far away from home. We do so to bear witness to our Christian values, and to express our condemnation of an injustice in which groups and leaders within the American Christian community are being implicated. We appeal to all Christian leaders in our own country to speak out against this unjust legislation.¨
read it all, HERE

¨Regardless of the diverse theological views of our religious traditions regarding the morality of homosexuality, in our churches, communities and families, we seek to embrace our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters as God's children worthy of respect and love. Yet we are painfully aware that in our country gays and lesbians still face hostility and violence. We recognize that such treatment degrades the human family, threatens the common good and defies the teachings of our Lord -- wherever it occurs.¨

"This bill is an affront to human dignity and offensive to Christians around the world who take seriously Christ's command to love our neighbors as ourselves," read it all, plus review the notable signatures, click HERE

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