From Virtue Online:
First of all, Lambeth 2008 will mainly be made up of liberals, as most of the orthodox will be attending GAFCON in the Holy Land with only a handful attending Lambeth 2008. Most of the orthodox will stay away from Lambeth thus saying, in so many words, '"We have had enough and we will discuss what it means to fulfill the Great Commission." The predominant voices at Lambeth will be liberals, not conservatives, with the loudest most strident left wing voices coming from the U.S., Canada, the UK, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.
While V. Gene Robinson, the openly homoerotic Bishop of New Hampshire, has not been given an official invitation to Lambeth he will attend "on his honeymoon" with his partner and will hold seminars on sodomy to anyone who wants to attend. Dr Williams made it clear in an announcement about Lambeth that Gene Robinson has not been invited to the Lambeth Conference. "It is proving extremely difficult to see under what heading he might be invited to be around," said Williams.
Recently, a Church of England bishop opined that if homosexuality was not on the table at Lambeth, then it would be the 800 pound gorilla in the communion that would come back to haunt it.
Furthermore, it has been the singular concern of the Archbishop of the West Indies, the Most Rev. Drexel Gomez, that if the conservatives stay away from Lambeth, then the Liberals will use it as an opportunity to overthrow Resolution 1:10, the lynchpin resolution of Lambeth 1998 that says sexual behavior is only appropriate between a husband and wife. Certainly the liberal bishops will be ably assisted in this action by the Anglican Consultative Council with acquiescence from Dr. Williams and a hearty push by liberal and revisionist TEC bishops.
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GJ - The Lambeth Conference is significant because the Archbishop of Canterburgy calls it once every 10 years. Bishops have to be invited to attend. As readers can see, the confab has some legislative authority, but that is easily overlooked. If the traditionalists pass a rule, it is bypassed. If the apostates pass a rule, it is the Eleventh Commandment.
The Episcopal Church in America has repeatedly violated its own guidelines in order to make the new radicalism the norm. That began with the illegal ordination of women and moved forward from there. Why wait to change the rules? Violating the rules will change them without a vote.
The socialists in England worked on incremental changes in their country, until England was almost completely bankrupt. This method has worked well for Episcopalians as well.
Let us not start clucking our tongues. Only a comatose Lutheran could say things are different in his own synod. The radicals nibble along the edges the same way. Synodical leaders do not read Luther and cannot spell Chemnitz, so they ape what they learn at joint meetings with ELCA, whether sponsored by Thrivent Insurance or blessed by the Fuller/Willow Creek bunch.
Lutherans follow the Episcopalians, a few years later.
