Global Anglican Future Conference a/k/a Let's Go Back to the Dark Ages

With all the work that needs to be done to feed the hungry, give comfort to the poor, and fight disease, the anti-gay wing nuts in the Anglican Communion prefer to hold meetings and plan a possible break from the larger Anglican Communion. All because the thought of gay clergy and the larger denomination's desire to not work over time to stigmatize gays apparently gets them so secretly sexually aroused that they become down right hysterical. Bigots like Peter Akinola who may have been involved in orchestrating the slaughter of hundreds of Muslims are behind this effort. Truly, what would Jesus say? Nothing good about these folks, I suspect. Here are some highlights from 365gay.com:

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(New York City) Conservatives from the world's largest Anglican provinces who are angered by liberal thinking in churches in North America and elsewhere are creating a global fellowship that challenges worldwide Anglican unity but stops short of a formal split. The plan was adopted at the Global Anglican Future Conference in Jerusalem. The summit was called by Anglican leaders in Africa and parts of North America and Australia outraged by what they consider a ``false gospel'' in liberal churches.

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Anglicans in developing countries _ where the fastest-growing and largest churches in the communion are located _ mostly hold to a strict interpretatio- of the Bible. The archbishops, or primates, of the provinces of Uganda, Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and the Southern Cone based in Argentina were among those at the Jerusalem event. The Jerusalem meeting was held just ahead of a once-a-decade gathering of all Anglican bishops, called the Lambeth Conference. The upcoming assembly is viewed by many as a test of the leadership of Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury and the Anglican spiritual head.

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Some of the more than 200 bishops in Jerusalem plan to boycott Lambeth, which begins July 16 in England. Williams has invited U.S. bishops who consecrated Robinson but has barred Robinson and a few other bishops from attending. Still, conservatives at the Jerusalem event repeatedly criticized Williams for failing to fully discipline the Episcopal Church.

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In their official statement, conservatives said they ``do not accept that Anglican identity is determined necessarily through recognition by the archbishop of Canterbury'' - a direct challenge to his leadership. And they called the current setup for the communion, with the archbishop of Canterbury at its center, ``a colonial structure.''

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``We reject the authority of those churches and leaders who have denied the orthodox faith in word or deed,'' they wrote.