Indaba “Monitor”: Jesus Had No Problem with Man-Boy Love
By Greg Griffith, Stand Firm
Ultimately, the responsibility of what to do about this falls on Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams. He has the most questions to answer of anyone. He has staked the future of the communion on "keeping everyone at the table" through this "Continuing Indaba" process. And as it stands now, he has as an overseer of the organization that secured funding for it, an ordained minister who believes that Jesus approved of grown men having sex with boys.
But as anyone familiar with Johnson’s Law knows, the surest way to turn perversion into doctrine in the Episcopal Church is to make a joke about it.
And so, here we are.
Ralinda Gregor at the American Anglican Council has done us all a tremendous service by doing the research for, an putting together, an article titled Money, Sex, Indaba: Corrupting the Anglican Communion Listening Process. This is must-reading for all of us, so hie thee hence after familiarizing yourself with the basics. Then, return for some discussion about what you can actually do about it besides shaking your head and gnashing your teeth.
To begin with, the Anglican Communion Office has in this crisis over homosexuality been cynically attempting to appease the overwhelmingly conservative African provinces, where 2/3 of the world’s Anglicans reside, by concocting a never-ending conversation about sexuality and theology designed to "keep everyone at the table" for as long as possible. This is the organic evolution of the "listening process" mentioned in the 1998 Lambeth Resolution 1.10 (which, incidentally, categorically rejected homosexual practice as incompatible with Scripture).
To make matters worse, the ACO has decided to label this newest incarnation of the listening process "Indaba," an African word for a process by which decisions are arrived at by a more-or-less egalitarian process the basis of which is group discussion.
The problem continues with the fact that this "Indaba" process requires money, and wouldn’t-ya-know-it, cash is in short supply around the Anglican Communion Office.
Enter the Satcher Institute, a "progressive" organization that receives a large amount of its funding from the odious Ford Foundation. One of the Satcher Institute’s departments is called the Center for Excellence in Sexual Health (CESH), and they have volunteered to secure funding for the Anglican Communion Office’s "Indaba" project to the tune of $1.5 million. This funding was approved at last month’s meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council in Jamaica.
The money comes from a wealthy Episcopal priest in the Diocese of Southeast Florida named Marta Weeks, who has long supported "progressive" causes.
Seeing any red flags yet? Good, because here’s where you really need to start paying attention:
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