No Anglican Covenant: Church of England diocese of Sodor and Man Vote Against the Covenant

Sodor and Man Vote Against the Covenant

¨The Church of England Diocese of Sodor and Man has just voted on whether to send the Anglican Covenant back to the General Synod for final approval. As 10 English dioceses have done before it, the diocesan synod voted against the Covenant.

Of the 44 dioceses, 11 have voted against the Covenant, and 7 have voted for it.

Recall that majority votes are required both of clergy of laity for the measure to pass. The voting was as follows: Bishops—1 for, 0 against, 0 abstentions; Clergy—5 for, 12 against, 0 abstentions; Laity—21 for, 15 against, 1 abstention. HERE

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·  Thanks to The No Anglican Covenant Coalition, sidebar
·  Thanks to Wikipedia

http://blog.noanglicancovenant.org/

IN ORDER TO DEPOSE OUR FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT: The Moral Authority of Mormon and Roman Catholic Bishops and Their Evangelical Pals

¨A Moral Authority¨

¨It’s like a bad joke opening, “Two Roman Catholics and a Mormon walk into a bar and demand that all the women stop using contraception...”

To make the joke complete let's examine the “moral authority” credentials of these three clowns and that of the "religious authorities" who want to make religion – say the “issue” that President Obama is not a “real Christian," or he is “anti-religious freedom" – an election year talking point.

Who is it that claims this moral authority and that also demands to be taken seriously? Why the Roman Catholic bishops and a former Mormon missionary of course!

I didn’t bring this up, they did! So cool your jets everyone who only wants religion to be respected and never criticized, even when that "religion" plays hardball politics.

Who are these paragons of tolerance demanding that the rest of us respect the reclassification of robbing women of their right to use contraceptives as “religious freedom?”

Using religion as an election issue in order to depose our first black president.

Back to our “two Catholics and a Mormon walk into a bar,” or rather back to Newt, Mitt and Rick walk into a bar. So what about the moral authority of the religious bodies they are "defending" -- as a way to actually attack the President? They brought religion up so lets talk about it! What right do they or their bishops have to lecture the rest of us?

When Mitt was working for his church as a missionary he was working for a church that at that time banned black men from being ministers.

When Newt and Rick speak for their church’s tender conscience on not being forced to insure women’s health, they are speaking for a church body run by old men who have presided over 50 years of covering up child abuse, sexual molestation and the codling of fascist regimes from Franco to Mussolini.

Like I said, this may be impolite to mention but the rest of us didn’t start talking about religion as an election issue in order to depose our first black president.

And what of the fellow traveler evangelicals ready to yell that they may be "personally" for "allowing" women to use contraception but that they just want to "defend religious liberty?"

Aren't they the people spouting anti-Muslim nonsense from coast to coast? Aren't they the people trying to ban gay men and women from marrying? These evangelicals seem eager to strip lots of people of actual rights these days while crying wolf about their own.

Like they say, people who live in class houses shouldn't throw stones. If the bishops want this fight, bring it on!...¨   please read it all, HERE  (photos and color emphasis added by Leonardo Ricardo)

Frank Schaeffer is a writer. He is just launching a speaking tour called Theocracy or Democracy.

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LAWS AGAINST SEXUAL MINORITES (Uganda?): ¨Equivalent to racism, unworkable and open to appalling abuse¨ says Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury (what say ++York?)

Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury

¨Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, spiritual head of the global Anglican communion, stepped on Tuesday into a row which is flaring at the U.N. Human Rights Council over the persecution of gays and lesbians.

Williams, who has faced strong opposition from parts of his own church especially in Africa for his stance on gays, did not directly refer to the current controversy at the Council, according to the text of a speech prepared for delivery at the Geneva-based World Council of Churches (WCC).

However, he said laws against sexual minorities were equivalent to racism, and warned that legal regulation of consensual sexual conduct "can be both unworkable and open to appalling abuse - intimidation and blackmail..."  please read it all, HERE
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INTIMIDATION, BLACKMAIL, SLANDER AND DECEIT IN UGANDA:

SPEAKING OF ´RACIST TYPE´ UNWORKABLE  ´CONSENSUAL SEXUAL CONDUCT´ SLANDER:

SODOMY SLANDER RESULTS IN THE APPALLING ABUSE OF THE BROTHER OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK BY PROTESTANT FUNDAMENTALIST PREACHERS IN UGANDA!



Ugandan ´Mega Church´Pastor Robert Kayanja, Brother of John Sentamu, Archbishop of York

MAGISTRATE IN UGANDA HOMOPHOBIC SMEAR CASE AGAINST BROTHER OF ARCHBISHOP OF YORK: ¨Accuses lawyer of dirty tricks campaign¨
HERE

 BACKGROUND:

¨Pastor Kayanja is very, very strong. His is 'Rubaga Miracle Cathedral'... and it is a mega church. He has recently opened a TV station in Uganda. Christian. And his ministry spans the earth. Yes, it does. He has good connections with the First Family, and has given of his accumulating wealth, judiciously. I mean, he has been giving to the police. Gifts of appreciation.¨  HERE

¨Kampala — THE first half of this year left its mark in the history of Uganda's Born-again church. Renowned pastor, Robert Kayanja, was accused of sodomy.

A group of five pastors and their colleagues pinned the Rubaga Miracle Centre cleric but Kayanja denied the allegations, calling them mudslinging.

The Christian Pastor ¨sodomy accusers¨ of Reverent Robert Kayanja, brother of ++Sentamu, become the accused! 

The accusers were anti-LGBT campaigners/pastors Michael Kyazze, Martin Ssempa, Solomon Male, Kayiira and Semujju.¨ ¨The Pastor Wars¨, HERE

Dr. Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury:  ¨...laws against sexual minorities were equivalent to racism, and warned that legal regulation of consensual sexual conduct "can be both unworkable and open to appalling abuse - intimidation and blackmail..." 

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Grandmère Mimi to Archbishop Rowan: IF WE PAY, WHY CAN'T WE PLAY?



Rowan Williams, The Archbishop of Canterbury, First Among Equals and more

BREAKING PEWS!  QUESTIONABLE QUESTIONER ALERT!
NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS!  NO LOITERING AT CHURCH!

From:

His Most Grumpy Rowan,  STATWDG
(Smarter Than A Thorned Whip Design Group)

The Department of How Dare You
Lambeth Palace
(Tower Annex)

Grandmère Mimi, aka June Butler (most probably a real heterosexual person, although the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, certainly will NOT recognize any of that type of American Episcopalian/Anglican/other exists), has been asking *questions* (again).  Oh, twadle, oh snuff-box-sniff, oh steak and kidney pie and a off with your head too! This disrespectful act, of *repeated* asking of undesireable *questions* of his Grace (and staff/mass implimentors and other underlings and insignificant others) in itself,  is discouraged at Lambeth Palace!  You certainly must know that already, yet you persist?

When the Archbishop is initiating¨no comment allowed¨ alerts and/or ¨snappy little pro covenant videos¨ (on demand) at his office (daily), nobody, he means nobody/nobody (that would include the English House of Bishops) may ask QUESTIONS!  Fools! Undercrofts!  Fallen Yorkshire Puddings! Harvey Nichols Trendies! Chimney Cleaning Filth!

Bah Humbug, bah bat poop, bah tweezers and wild hair plucking! There is no doubt that the aledged Miss June of Luisiana (of course June is a month and not a proper name at all) has stepped over the frown line and will receive, in all due time of course, a nasty backbite. There may be, in addition, a proper ignoring and/or a free dinner/Bible Study with +Pete Akinola, +Hank Orombi and +Frank Lyons on the shores of Lake Titicaca!  Besides, who asked her anyway?  Everyone, and Rowan Williams means everyone, knows his Godly insistant demands must be met! 

Off with you now, and, please, the rest of you ¨incoherent¨ lame brains from throughout the Anglican Communion, do not read one word   HERE written by the dangerous, word bewitching, no Anglican Covenant trickster and double dealing librarian (she´ll expect everyone of you to learn how to read)! 

Can´thour

DELIVER US FROM EVIL: Lesbian Denied Communion By Priest Who Then Quits In Middle Of Her Mother’s Funeral

Father Marcel Guarnizo is an anti-choice activist who has delivered speeches about abortion  which calls abortion clinics — one, in particular which he mentions by name — a “veritable death camp.”

“I cannot give you communion because you live with a woman and that is a sin according to the church,” the priest, Father Marcel Guarnizo, a Vicar at Saint John Neumann Catholic Church in Gaithersburg, Maryland, reportedly said to the woman, identified only as “Barbara,” in this piece by Ann Werner at Addicting Info:

¨My friend Barbara, the daughter of the deceased woman, was denied communion at her mother’s funeral. She was the first in line and Fr. Guarnizo covered the bowl containing the host and said to her, “I cannot give you communion because you live with a woman and that is a sin according to the church.” To add insult to injury, Fr. Guarnizo left the altar when she delivered her eulogy to her mother. When the funeral was finished he informed the funeral director that he could not go to the gravesite to deliver the final blessing because he was sick...¨  sicker than the dog that he is,  HERE

Marcel Guarnizo

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THE AMERICAN FACISTS: Their ´final objective´ is to keep common man in ¨eternal subjection¨ Henry Wallace, Episcopalian and U.S. Vice President

Vice President Wallace spoke out during race riots in Detroit in 1943, declaring that the nation could not "fight to crush Nazi brutality abroad and condone race riots at home."

¨Vice President Wallace was elected in November 1940 as Vice President on the Democratic Party ticket with President Franklin D. Roosevelt. His inauguration took place on January 20, 1941, for the term ending January 20, 1945.

Roosevelt named Wallace chairman of the Board of Economic Warfare (BEW) and of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board (SPAB) in 1941. Both positions became important with the U.S. entry into World War II. As he began to flex his newfound political muscle in his position with SPAB, Wallace came up against the conservative wing of the Democratic party in the form of Jesse H. Jones, Secretary of Commerce, as the two differed on how to handle wartime supplies.

On May 8, 1942, Wallace delivered his most famous speech, which became known by the phrase "Century of the Common Man" to the Free World Association in New York City. This speech, grounded in Christian references, laid out a positive vision for the war beyond the simple defeat of the Nazis. The speech, and the book of the same name which appeared the following year, proved quite popular, but it earned him enemies among the Democratic leadership, among important allied leaders like Winston Churchill, and among business leaders and conservatives.

Wallace spoke out during race riots in Detroit in 1943, declaring that the nation could not "fight to crush Nazi brutality abroad and condone race riots at home."

More About Vice President Henry Wallace

In 1943, Wallace made a goodwill tour of Latin America, shoring up support among important allies. His trip proved a success, and helped persuade twelve countries to declare war on Germany. Regarding trade relationships with Latin America, he convinced the BEW to add "labor clauses" to contracts with Latin American producers. These clauses required producers to pay fair wages and provide safe working conditions for their employees and committed the United States to paying for up to half of the required improvements. This met opposition from the U.S. Department of Commerce...¨ HERE

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· Thanks to the 33rd  Vice President of the United States Henry Wallace, Democrat

· Thanks to Wikipedia

NO ANGLICAN COVENANT: ¨So take my advice, don´t buy a pig in a poke¨

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Rowan Williams,  Archbishop of Canterbury, bold promoter of the Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Unity Faith and Order (IASCUFO) and their ¨task of fascilitaiting the reception of the Anglican Covenant¨

¨Suddenly there's a little flutter of pro-Covenant publicity. Clearly the No Anglican Covenant Campaign has got people rattled.

There is one very good reason why those who want the Covenant have been so tardy in asserting their case: serious opposition was never expected.

I am confident that there was a conscious policy of not provoking discussion, of not dealing with the issues or the detail. I believe that the planned tactics have been to assert the merits of the Covenant in bland and general terms and to repeat there is no alternative. The calculation was that if this twin message was reiterated often enough, people would be lulled into passing the Covenant on the nod.

Reception of the Covenant

Hence the new talking-heads videos described as "empty of critical content" by Mark Harris HERE. They come from a sub-group of the Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Unity Faith and Order (IASCUFO). This group is tasked with facilitating the reception of the Covenant across the Communion.

But, please note, this is reception after the Covenant has been adopted. It was never anticipated that the group would need to explain or justify the Covenant in order to convince the voters of each Province to vote in favour. Here 'reception' means a PR exercise to induce people to like the Covenant once it was a legal fact that they could do noting about. (Admittedly 'reception' has always been a poor starveling in the spectrum of Anglican ecclesiology.)

Therefore the tone of the videos is mellow and reassuring: the Covenant is entirely benign, a Good Thing, motherhood-and-apple-pie, so don't worry your heads over it.

This is the Covenant of fairy land. It is as though To Mend the Net had never been written HERE or GAFCON created, as though Gene Robinson had never been consecrated bishop, as though no same-sex couple ever had their union blessed in church, as though there had never been any intrusion by one Province into the territory of others, as though Primates have always shared bread and wine together without demur, as though no Province had already declared itself out of Communion with any other...¨ there is more regarding the fairy tale from fairy land, HERE  (emphasis color/size added by Leonardo Ricardo)

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·  Thanks to Not the same stream, sidebar
·  Thanks to The No Anglican Covenant Coalition, HERE
·  Thanks to The Reverend Canon Mark Harris
·  Thanks to Preludium,  HERE

EQUAL MEANS EQUAL and EVERYONE MEANS EVERYONE: Maryland Senate Passes Marriage Equality Bill

Sen. Bryan Simonaire (R) even read the full text of the children’s book King and King on the floor, expressing concern that schools will teach that same-sex couples exist — one of many “filibusters” that delayed the vote.

¨Today, the Maryland Senate passed marriage equality legislation with a vote of 25-22. Opponents proposed numerous amendments in an attempt to derail the bill, including several that failed in the House last week. Sen. Bryan Simonaire (R) even read the full text of the children’s book King & King on the floor, expressing concern that schools will teach that same-sex couples exist — one of many “filibusters” that delayed the vote. All the proposed amendments failed, which means the passed bill now proceeds to Gov. Martin O’Malley (D), who has promised to sign it. The law is set to take effect January 1, 2013, but will likely be challenged in a referendum before then...¨ HERE

·  Thanks to Think Progress, sidebar
·  Thanks to Governor Martin O’Malley (D)

LEAP YEAR 2012: It´s the way that we see things that makes the ¨realismo magico¨ into being things.

HAPPY LEAP YEAR, 2012

ATTENTION Anglican Archbishop John Chew Hiang Chea -- South East Asia: Burmese rights group to broadcast LBGT news online

 A Chiang Mai-based LGBT rights group that serves the Burmese LGBT community and began Rainbow TV programs in late 2011 says it will continue to broadcast television programs on a monthly basis.

The following was first published by the Human Rights Education Institute of Burma on Feb 19, 2012:

¨In 2012, the Colours Rainbow group will continue to broadcast television programs, with a variety of topics covered in each month’s program. The first program of 2012 can be watched online.

The Colours Rainbow group, a Chiang Mai [Thailand] based LGBT rights activist group, started Rainbow TV programs in late 2011, and broadcast programs bi-monthly. This has now changed to monthly broadcasts.

This month the program includes international LGBT news, a documentary about the transgender day of remembrance ceremony organized by the Burmese LGBT community, an interview with Naomi (who is transgender and LGBT rights activist from the Philippines) and interesting news about the most attractive female-to-male transgender person. Moreover, the LGBT song named “Lu Maung”, which is about the tragic story and emotions of a young homosexual man from a village in Burmese society, was also broadcasted in this month’s program.

Currently, there are four episodes of Rainbow TV already broadcast. The programs can be watched on tvnews.colorsrainbow.com. You are welcome to send feedback and comments, news about LGBT, articles, stories, songs, footage and documentaries, and movies to clrburma@gmail.com....¨ please read it all,   HERE

URGENT REQUEST FOR MALAYSIA -- PASTORAL CARE NEEDED!

Attention: Anglican Archbishop John Chew Hiang Chea of South East Asia:

Serial gang-attacks on transgender women in Malaysia increasing! HERE

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·  Thanks to The Colours Rainbow group, a Chiang Mai [Thailand]
·  Thanks to Rainbow T.V.
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·  Thanks to Burmese LGBT community