Tuesday, September 27, 2011

THAT MANY THINGS

Having full reference to one consent may work contrariously. For different reasons, Jim Naughton and I have basically come to the same conclusion:

We’ve decided to forego posting items that serve more or less exclusively to give folks who are sympathetic to our pro-LGBT point of view the chance to say negative things about folks who are opposed to that point of view. We don’t expect people to stop making critical comments, and we don’t intend to refrain from criticizing what we consider to be destructive points of view, but some of the arguments in Anglican land are so well rehearsed that they are no longer worth having unless there is something immediately at stake.

Since we’ve heard all the arguments dozens of times, there’s no point in endlessly repeating them over and over so the only thing left for principled western conservative Anglicans to do is to walk away and begin again.

Continuing to exchange the same insults over and over will achieve nothing and is not going to change anyone’s mind.

Do the liberals want the “official” Canterbury connection? Let them have it; it’s not worth fighting over. Your average Roman Catholic or Eastern Orthodox Christian gets through the day just fine without being “officially recognized” by Rowan Williams or any other holder of his increasingly worthless office.

As Jim notes, if matters need to be commented upon, I’ll get to them. But that’s kind of why there has been and will be increasingly less and less Anglican coverage around this. Because there’s really no point in plowing the same ground again and again and again.

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