Anglican Mainstream

‘The Anglican "Indaba" process has from its inception been a fraud, a delay tactic concocted by Rowan Williams and the heavily-revisionist ACO, in order to keep the orthodox Global South from bolting the communion. Now it has morphed into something that is being "monitored" by an organization led by people who advocate not just for same-sex unions – which we’ve come to expect – and not just for polyamorous unions as well, but by people who assert that there’s no harm in showing 5-year-olds videotaped depictions of intercourse, who seek to de-stigmatize bestiality, and who assert "it is likely that… Jesus himself had no problem with the practice of pederasty.’" StandFirm:  Read it all here

Moreover, in that some of these developments are apparently quite unknown in certain influential quarters in the UK, I want to highlight the public views of the assistant director of CESH (Center for Excellence in Sexual Health), Dr William Slayton, who also happens to be keeping track of the Indaba process.  Given his values, what kind of a job may we expect him to do? 

Dr Slayton’s name and details are on the the premier US polyamory —(plural loves or non-binary love and sexual relationships) professional registry, which includes essentially all leading poly spokespeople: http://www.lovemore.com/polyprofessional.html 

In its FAQ section, http://www.lovemore.com/faq.html#wfp, this organization describes how bisexuals constitute about 40% of the thousand plus polys who were surveyed.  On this site as well we read that some polys claim poly as an ‘orientation’, while others have made a more philosophic choice to embrace polyamory because mongamy did not appear to work for them.   This is only one of Slayton’s many controversial involvements.   And watch the man himself in action.  He is totally serious about his mission of liberating and celebrating sex in its myriad of diverse ‘forms’. Is this position at all congruent with the Judeo-Christian standard of sexual morality?   He would say not, and I agree.   

Now from StandFirm:                    

‘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 assistant director of CESH, Dr. William Stayton …, is an off-the-chart advocate for normalizing all manner of sexual perversion …
Dr. Stayton is listed here as a "poly-friendly professional," and here as a panelist on a forum titled "The Religious Right’s Obsession with Gay Sex?" at Princeton, which was described as – I kid you not – a "panel discussion on tactics used by many right-wing organizations, and why these groups focus energies on portraying LGBT individuals as obsessed with sex." Here is a video presentation (35Mb Windows Media file) by Dr. Stayton titled "What Sexuality Educators Should Know About Religion" given at the "First International Congress on Lifespan Sexuality Education." BE WARNED: About halfway through the presentation, Dr. Stayton shows some scenes from one of his "therapeutic" videos. The scenes he chooses to show amount to little more than soft-core pornography, and evidently they’re just a prelude to, in his words, the "kinky" ones. Aside from the lame attempt to dress up pornography as serious, scientifically-supported "therapy" (I mean really… who would’ve guessed that caressing each other and "exploring each others’ genitals" would lead to arousal?), Stayton also posits a "sexual values" system which, if you’re a student of rhetorical logic, leads to many unintentional laughs.’  

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