From the log entry:

“In 2002 the Anglican Diocese of New Westminster in British Columbia officially approved same-sex ‘blessings.’ […] [T]he diocese proceeded to develop a same-sex rite and last May performed the first such ‘blessing ceremony’ in a Vancouver church.”

On this general topic — same-sex marriage — “Roach” at “ManSizedTarget” cites a nice excerpt from a John Derbyshire piece:

“All this applies a fortiori to the notion of homosexual marriage. If homosexual marriage is just an obvious matter of simple fairness, how is it that this never occurred to anyone, anywhere in the world, in any era of human history or in any of the multifarious types of human society, until about 1990? Why did it not occur to Plato or Aristotle? To Confucius or Lao Tsu? To Buddha, Zoroaster, or Jesus Christ? To Aquinas or Abelard? To Spinoza or Kant? To the French revolutionaries or the Founding Fathers? To Schopenhauer or John Stuart Mill? To Bertrand Russell or Jean-Paul Sartre? To Lenin or Mao Tse-tung? It is the great conceit of our age that we are wiser than our ancestors were, but this is taking the conceit (which anyway dissolves readily in a couple of hours TV watching) too far.”

http://mansizedtarget.blogspot.com/2004_01_01_mansizedtarget_archive.html#107307614854209204

Derbyshire is right. But it’s worse than he imagines. It is not merely “the great conceit of our age that we are wiser than our ancestors were.” It is the conceit of our (liberal) age that all of human history up to the moment before last was an abyss of ignorance, superstition, cruelty, inequality, discrimination, exclusion, and horror. So OF COURSE all the so-called greatest thinkers of history were guilty for not seeing that homosexual marriage is a simple matter of fairness. To condemn all of Western civilization for that “failure” is not taking the liberal conceit too far. It is absolutely consistent with the liberal conceit. the intent and effect of which are to strip ALL VALUE from our historic civilization, except perhaps those parts of it that help legitimize liberalism.

Dear Sir,

You will find that under the title ‘The Agony Of Anglicanism’ the Literature List on my newly established web site contains the following items of literature: -
1) ‘How to handle the crisis in Anglicanism’ (A practical guide to explaining how Christians can best respond to the growing divisions within Anglicanism)
2) ‘Mumbling In The Dark’ (A critical review of the poems of Rowan Williams and their wider implications; within the Anglican Church and elsewhere)
3) ‘Why Rowan?’ (Possible reasons as to why God raised Doctor Rowan Williams to be head of the Anglican Communion of seventy million people)
4) Various meditative and controversial material.
5) Bibliographical and chronological information

You will find the web site at www.geocities.com/midrashcreed
Should you wish to bypass the home page try clicking http://www.geocities.com/midrashcreed/contents.htm#ag

The above-cited material assumes that the current crisis in the Anglican Communion is too big to be ignored – largely because it has a potentially lethal interfaith dimension, which could engender large-scale loss of life in this country. It also represents a form of ‘loyalty test’ for those Anglicans who do actually believe in Jesus. I have tried to approach each given topic from a relatively original standpoint – NOT beholden to any party or faction within the Anglican Communion.

You are very welcome to replicate, pass on and quote from any of this literature as long as: -
1) I am informed that such an activity is taking place
2) The original source of ‘Yes-Now’ Publications (Y.N.Ps) is acknowledged
3) It’s understood that the Copyright remains with the author (who is also the Director of Y.N.Ps.)
4) It’s accepted that the Director is in no sense responsible for: -
· Costs, damages or injuries sustained through the above
· Your own conduct or affairs as an individual person or organisation
(For further details please refer to the Disclaimer, but don’t be put off by its rather dry, legastic language.)

Should you wish to respond to this correspondence please contact me over the next three weeks at midrashcreed@yahoo.co.uk.

The ‘Doctor Gareth Bennett affair’ of December 1987 amply explains why, for now, I prefer to withhold personal details. I myself have had bitter first hand experience of the ruthlessness prevailing within the Anglican Church once the authority of its corrupt hierarchy has been called into question.

Yours in Christ,

M.C

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