This particular mission has nothing at all to do with the Gospel and a lot to do with the anti-gospel: it is a dogged determination to repopulate diocesan clergy with homosexual priests who are “married” to someone of the same-sex.

The diocese has recently imported three such married priests from other dioceses and provinces and has now ordained another.

The latest ordination was protested by six existing priests in the diocese – not, as Bishop Barry Clarke made abundantly clear, that that will make a whit of difference.

This article (page 5) repeatedly refers to the six priests who have such an obstinate determination to cling to Biblical principles as “dissidents”, the currently approved term of opprobrium reserved for such obdurate Biblical obsessives:

The dissidents presented him with a letter, also signed by two absent colleagues, describing Mr. Camara’s marriage as incompatible with scripture and the definition of marriage under Anglican church law.

The preacher at the event – let’s not all it an “ordination” – made this pungent observation:

Walter Asbil (retired bishop of Niagara), often commented that we clergy ordained in the late fifties and early sixties had witnessed a major transition called the end of Christendom. We just hope we hadn’t caused it!

Such an inflated view of the influence of Anglican clergy is clearly preposterous: they have merely caused the end of Christianity in the Anglican Church – a far more modest achievement.