{"id":58,"date":"2008-08-25T01:00:06","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T05:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=58"},"modified":"2008-08-25T01:00:06","modified_gmt":"2008-08-25T05:00:06","slug":"george-pitcher-and-the-wright-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/george-pitcher-and-the-wright-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"George Pitcher and the Wright stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Deborah Pitt, an evangelical from Penarth, Wales (around the corner from where I used to live in another era) had the effrontery to publish some letters to her from Rowan Williams when he was archbishop of Wales. The Friends of the ABC – most notably, Tom Wright leapt valiantly to Rowan’s defense<\/a>. Rowan’s letters include statements like this: \u201cI concluded that an active sexual relationship between two people of the same sex might therefore reflect the love of God in a way comparable to marriage, if and only if it had about it the same character of absolute covenanted faithfulness.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

Now I know Rowan doesn’t write or speak English the way a mere mortal would, but that seems pretty clear to me. Tom Wright and co. focus on the word “might” with a tenacity worthy of Bill Clinton’s obsession with the word “is”. Also, much is made of the absurd proposition that there is a difference between \u2018thinking aloud\u2019 as a theologian and the task of a bishop (let alone an Archbishop) to uphold the church\u2019s teaching,<\/em> as if the task of a bishop to uphold the church’s teaching is unaffected by what he is thinking. Which brings us to George Pitcher, who writes about Deborah Pitt’s attempt to explain herself:<\/p>\n

A sad and dispiriting little letter in The Times today, from the woman who “leaked” 8-year-old letters from Dr Rowan Williams that “revealed” he was personally sympathetic to same-sex unions that were faithful and permanent.\"\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He then mocks her grammar – something I would never do – and continues:<\/p>\n

About the only thing clear here is that the Bishop of Durham’s letter, co-signed by 18 other Anglican bishops from across the ecclesiological spectrum, was articulate. It certainly put Ms Pitt in her place. Her letter, by contrast, is neither articulate nor clear.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Poor Ms. Pitt – actually, that’s Dr. Pitt to you George – already knows her place: it’s in Penarth being a medical doctor; not, unlike some, having interminable conversations with other doctors on what it really means to be a doctor.<\/p>\n

George Pitcher’s article is at the Telegraph<\/a><\/p>\n

Deborah Pitt’s response the the ABC is at SF<\/a>. She seems to be a gracious lady.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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