Toronto’s Bishop Kevin Robertson is married to another man and, as a result, even though he has been invited to Lambeth 2020, his spouse has not.
Robertson thinks that this decision was “driven by homophobia”. I don’t agree with him about that since the word “homophobia” is a meaningless insult hurled at anyone who believes homosexual practice is inconsistent with a Biblical understanding of marriage and human sexuality.
I do agree with the last thing Robertson said in this article, though: ”Keeping people away and excluding people is not the answer.”
Justin Welby is still trying to present the appearance of straddling the fence on homosexual clergy and same-sex marriage while, in unguarded moments, it is obvious he has no disagreement with either. Welby privately “attempted to comfort” Robertson after breaking the news to him; it’s quite clear where Welby’s sympathies lie.
Is it too much to expect an Archbishop of Canterbury to be honest and straightforward? It seems so.
It is time for Welby to come clean, openly admit he is in favour of same-sex marriage, tell us he is taking the Church of England in that direction, invite all bishops and all their spouses to Lambeth 2020 and let those who disagree take the action that their consciences dictate.
Read it all here:
ONE of the bishops who were told that they could not bring their same-sex spouse to next year’s Lambeth Conference has accused conservative Primates of homophobia in their opposition to his presence.
The Area Bishop of York-Scarborough, the Rt Revd Kevin Robertson, a suffragan in the diocese of Toronto, said that he was not convinced that archbishops from the global South who had insisted that his husband, Mohan Sharma, could not attend the Conference were motivated solely by theological conviction.
Bishop Robertson was told in person by the Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth Palace earlier this year that Mr Sharma, unlike the husbands and wives of all other bishops, would not be invited to the Lambeth Conference in 2020.
“It was disappointing, absolutely, and I expressed that to the Archbishop,” Bishop Robertson said. He had been at Lambeth Palace for an induction event for new bishops from across the Anglican Communion.
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He said that in their private conversation at Lambeth Palace, Archbishop Welby attempted to comfort him by noting that, at the last Lambeth Conference, gay bishops themselves, let alone their partners, were not invited.
But this did not seem like much progress, Bishop Robertson said. “This is the great frustration of Lambeth — by excluding spouses like Becki and Mohan it doesn’t allow for frank, even difficult, conversations.
“If they are not present, not seen, not known, how do we advance the conversation and build bridges through the disagreement? Keeping people away and excluding people is not the answer.”
The brilliance of his move is that this — the “injustice” of not inviting the spouses — will become the focal point of the controversy. I have to assume this is deliberate and calculated. It is a calculation of what they can get away with at this point. If the conservatives go along with this you can be absolutely sure all will be invited to the next Lambeth — to eliminate the “injustice”.
Where’s a “bad disagreement” when you need one?!
Yes, I REALLY cannot see why either ‘spouse’ should be invited. It takes two to tango!
“Keeping away people & excluding is not the answer” was Bishop Ken Robertson’s comment the person who’s in charge of Anglican Samizdat agrees
Well, it’s better to see things on a grass roots level through our own eyes
This is 1st hand information is better than 2nd hand information I think we all can agree on together
It’s important to:
read the Bible
Pray
Fellowship
Study the Bible
Go to Church on Sundays:
Listen to Sermons
Robertson can come to Lambeth 2020 but his partner cannot
Robertson feels this is homophobia of which the Anglican Samizdat person doesn’t agree
The writer feels homophobia is a meaningless hurled insult
The writer feels the Bible says, “No”, to the above but the Bishop does not seem to agree
This goes onto the interpretation of scripture, does it not?
It’s good to go to a good Bible Study at a good Church
The 2010 ‘Equality Act’ (the EU Cultural Marxist ‘child’ of then Home Secretary, Mrs. May – of Brexit Delay) has become the instrument of choice for ‘coming clean’ on the anti-Scriptural issue of gay ‘marriage’ and its cognate Cultural Marxist ideological imprimatur in UK schools;currently, the Incumbent ABC siding with the Government against both protesting Muslim parents and ‘Anglican Mainstream’ representation at the Parkfield School in Birmingham…the same post-Christian Birmingham that during one of his first Episcopal visits to a Muslim school The Very Name of Jesus was not even mentioned.
When Welby came to Birmingham…Jesus could not be found.
The so-called bishop, more correctly called apostate, is NOT a Christian, Neither is the ABC as both bow down to that detestable ‘god of political expediency’ and have abandoned the GOD of the Scriptures and totally reject the authority of the Scriptures. Until the ABC returns to the Scriptures tha Anglican communion will continue its rapid descent into the pit of apostasy.
Since his aggrieved Grace’s still smiling face graces no less than the front page of the April, 2019, Easter edition of ‘Anglican Journal”, subsumed under “Seeing With Easter Eyes”, one now can only assume that this constitutes the first pre-General Synod official ‘Wedding invitation’.
Calvary eyes + John 3:16 must needs precede Easter eyes
– the requisite vision for an Invitation to The Marriage Supper of The Lamb.
+ The Revelation of Jesus Christ. Amen.