contempt

The Episcopal Church continues to signal that it just doesn’t care what the rest of the Anglican Communion thinks, even as the Lambeth Commission is meeting in North Carolina.

This past weekend, the Bishop of Washington, John Chane (Yes, you saw him participate in Reagan’s funeral.) performed a same-sex wedding in the National Cathedral.

Now, the Executive Committee of the Episcopal Church has chosen Bishop Michael Ingham as the Anglican Church of Canada Liaison to the Episcopal Church. This is the Bishop Ingham who has pushed same sex blessings, persecuted the orthodox, and been practically excommunicated by a majority of the Anglican Communion. If the Executive Committee could have made a choice more offensive to orthodox Anglicans, I don’t know what it could be.

I think Bishop Chane and the Executive Committee know exactly what they are doing. They are letting the Lambeth Commission and the Anglican Communion know that they will continue to push their pansexual agenda no matter what. This is breathtaking contempt for the Commission and for the Communion and even for the Archbishop of Canterbury himself, who has asked that actions precipitating further division not be undertaken while the Lambeth Commission is deliberating.

To look at the bright side, these actions and their incredibly disrespectful timing should let the Lambeth Commission know just exactly whom they are dealing with. If they don’t see now the need for serious discipline of the Episcopal Church . . . Well, I’ll cut myself off there. At least I, for one, want to show the Lambeth Commission a little respect.