++Peter Carnley, Good Riddance!

The long and awful years of Peter Carnley’s Primacy over the Anglican Church of Australia are finally coming to an end. And not a moment too soon.

I’ve taken him to task here before and could have easily done so many times. For he has the wonderful ability to say something stupid and/or offensive to conservatives every time he opens his mouth.

And he’s ending his time as Primate that way as well. He uses his opening address at the General Synod over the weekend to take potshots at Prime Minister John Howard in the midst of an election campaign.

And he suggests that we should just think of homosexual relationships as friendships.

As one poster, Gayle, on the linked thread mentioned, the irony of this is as rich as its stupidity. For activist homosexuals and decadent Western society have so sexualized everything, that it’s difficult to have close non-sexual friendships anymore. I myself have guy friends I would like to be closer to, but I’m at the same time afraid to be closer for fear it would be misinterpreted.

In any case, ++Carnley is going out in style. The only downside to his leaving is that there isn’t much hope that his successor will be much better.