From here:
For his part, the Rev. Malcolm French, the coalition’s [No Anglican Covenant Coalition] Regina-based Canadian convenor, points to an inherent anti-American bias at the heart of the covenant. “Certainly the venom level went up once the Episcopal church had a female presiding bishop and, oddly, this is why the covenant has appealed to some people in the U.K. who would otherwise be seen as perhaps politically on the left. It connects to a larger anti-Americanism that has nothing to do with church politics.”
This is rather an odd statement coming as it does from the political leftist and theological liberal, Rev. Malcolm French. Up until now, being anti-American was the sine qua non of the French id, it was what brightened his day, put a spring in his step and lent fuel to his rejoicing at living in the country of the sainted Tommy Douglas and Jack Layton rather than the land of the devil worshipping George Bush.
What Rev. French really means, of course, is that the Anglican Covenant is against the heretical theological meanderings which are afflicting American Anglicanism. The Covenant, even if adopted, is insufficiently potent to do much about that, but even a whiff of rebuke is enough to start Anglican liberals foaming at the mouth in indignation.
This almost makes me want to support the Covenant.
Here are two who were “close friends” in the Roman Catholic Church. Their relationship was long term, but the commitment was sufficiently loose to allow them to haunt “places frequented by gays” where one of them acquired AIDS and syphilis.
Since it no longer believes in Hell in the next life, the Episcopal Church can’t very well preach fire and brimstone sermons, so on Sunday, it did the next best thing: it had “a national preach-in” (whatever that is) on global warming in this life.
Apparently the Diocese of Niagara will try just about anything except Christianity to entice people into its buildings: the place was full for the first time this century.