Personal fiefdom?
Table of contents for London Gay Wedding
By Peter Ould
- Gay Wedding
- Gay Wedding – The Theology
- Gay Wedding – What we should do now
- Richard Chartres plays very hard ball indeed
- London Gay Wedding – Things hot up in the Deanery
- Martin Dudley mishandles Donatism
- Gay BCP Wedding – No Action to be Taken
- Martin Dudley – Examining his Letter
- Dealing with Dudley – An alternative understanding
- Personal Fiefdom?
It appears that the Rev Martin Dudley truly is a law unto himself, and himself alone.
In today’s Church Times Dudley writes on the letters page:
Sir,
Your report concerning the blessing of Peter Cowell and David Lloyd contains a number of errors, though you are not responsible for only some of them.
Bishop Broadbent stated that there was a "series of frank discussions" with me which led to my expression of regret. This is not the case. There were no discussions with the Bishop of London or anyone representing him.
I did not issue "a statement of apology to the Bishop of London"; I sent him a letter of regret on the 21st of July, drafted in consultation with my lawyers, to which he replied on 15 September requesting that it should be made public.
Let’s summarise this shall we?
- Bishop Pete Broadbent is either a liar or seriously mistaken / misinformed
- Dudley is not apologising for performing the service.
I think this letter makes it completely unambigious that, as I have pointed out, Dudley sees absolutely nothing wrong in the theology of the service he performed. He doesn’t even regret doing the service, he only regrets the embarassment he caused to Richard Chartres.
Read HERE.
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