{"id":21280,"date":"2014-04-10T00:01:04","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T04:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=21280"},"modified":"2014-04-10T00:24:45","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T04:24:45","slug":"justin-welby-interviewed-by-the-anglican-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/justin-welby-interviewed-by-the-anglican-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Welby interviewed by the Anglican Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The whole interview is here<\/a>. It is titled: \u201dWelby explains gays and violence in Africa remarks\u201d because, as you can imagine, liberals have been wailing and gnashing their molars at Welby\u2019s saying that gay marriage in the West will lead to more murders in Africa. Many are grasping at tenuous explanations<\/a> to excuse such a calamitous lapse from diversity groupthink.<\/p>\n

The Anglican Journal tries to come to the rescue:<\/p>\n

Q: Were you in fact blaming the death of Christians in parts of Africa on the acceptance of gay marriage in America?<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This encourages Welby into Rowanesque waffling:<\/p>\n

A: What I was saying is that when we take actions in one part of the church, particularly actions that are controversial, that they are heard and felt not only in that part of the church but around the world…And, this is not mere consequentialism; I’m not saying that because there will be consequences to taking action, that we shouldn’t take action.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So even though there are \u201cconsequences\u201d \u2013 like murder \u2013 to our actions, it doesn\u2019t mean we shouldn\u2019t take them. Or does it? I really have no idea:<\/p>\n

What I’m saying is that love for our neighbour, love for one another, compels us to consider carefully how that love is expressed, both in our own context and globally. We never speak the essential point that, as a church, we never speak only in our local situation. Our voice carries around the world. Now that will be more true in some places than in others. It depends on your links. We need to learn to live as a global church in a local context and never to imagine that we’re just a local church. There is no such thing.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now for the hard question:<\/p>\n

Q: In 2016, the church\u2019s General Synod will be presented with a resolution changing the marriage canon to allow same-sex marriage. Is this a cause for concern?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: That’s a really tough question. Well, it’s got to be a cause for concern because this is a particularly tough issue to deal with…And, I hope that two or three things happen: I hope that the church, in its deliberations, is drawing on the wealth of its contribution to the Anglican Communion and the worldwide church, to recognize\u2026the way it works and how it thinks, to recognize the importance of its links. And that, in its deliberations, it is consciously listening to the whole range of issues that are of concern in this issue. We need to be thinking; we need to be listening to the LGBT voices and to discern what they’re really saying because you can’t talk about a single voice anymore than you can with any other group. There needs to be listening to Christians from around the world; there needs to be listening to ecumenical partners, to interfaith partners. There needs to be a commitment to truth in love and there needs to be a commitment to being able to disagree in a way that demonstrates that those involved in the discussions love one another as Christ loves us. That\u2019s the biggest challenge, that in what we do, we demonstrate that love for Christ in one another.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s easy to tell that the answer is prating twaddle: it contains \u201clistening\u201d four times. My favourite is: \u201cconsciously listening\u201d; can we unconsciously listen? I suppose so: in institutional Indabas. Although we must listen to \u201cLGBT voices\u201d, when it comes to listening to anyone who lives trying to resist same-sex attraction it will, as usual, be a case of the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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