Anglican Church appears to be fraying at the seams

[Torie]

I was unaware of this contretemps, but it really does seem to be that way. It has made itself look ridiculous. It really should split up. The head guy, this Welby character, seems to be trying  to bridge the unbridgeable - the institution is the thing, not the flock. That is just not going to fly long term methinks. I do like the costuming though. It's less gaudy than the Catholic sartorial presentation. Very tasteful.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/01/world/australia/anglican-church-homosexuality-new-zealand.html

So even if reading about the internecine tensions of this church is just not your cup of tea, and even if you have SSM controversy burnout, the article is worth clicking on just to view the stunning visual image. It's dead bang gorgeous really. Very pleasingly symmetrical to boot. Too bad copyright law precludes me from splashing it directly on to this page.

How is the CEO of this outfit picked I wonder? Yeah I know, by the British monarch, but how is "he" really picked? (Yes, I don't see a female being picked for another century of two myself assuming the outfit lasts that long.)

It seems that something called the "Crown Appointments Commission" has a key role in the process. What's that?

https://www.churchofengland.org/about/leadership-and-governance/crown-nominations-commission

OK, got it. And its members seem to all be very British looking white people. That does not seem very inclusive now does it? But then, that means all those homophobic prelates/laity from the third world just aren't there. So what is their excuse then for having selected this Welby guy?

https://www.churchofengland.org/about/leadership-and-governance/crown-nominations-commission

I think I want to be the UK king for a day, and perhaps cause a Constitutional crisis by summoning the Archbishop of Canterbury and giving him a good dressing down in full regalia (crown included). That would be fun. Would a gay be eligible to be king?

[Torie]

Welby was an oil man before, wasn't he?

Yes, and mostly worked for companies then doing a lot of exploratory work in West Africa.

How'd he go from that to Bishop, seems like a tough Carrer change.

Read all about him. Of most interest to me is his conversion experience was attended by a speaking in tongues experience. The chap still does.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Welby

“In a 2013 interview with The Daily Telegraph, Welby related his conversion experience when he was a student at Trinity College, Cambridge. He said that, while he was at Eton, he had "vaguely assumed there was a God. But I didn't believe. I wasn't interested at all." However, during the evening of 12 October 1975 in Cambridge, praying with a Christian friend, Welby said that he suddenly felt "a clear sense of something changing, the presence of something that had not been there before in my life". He said to his friend, "Please don't tell anyone about this." Welby said that he was desperately embarrassed that this had happened to him. He has since said that his time at Cambridge was a major moment of self-realisation in his life.[19] At the age of 19, he began speaking in tongues.”

And oh yes, this bit:

“He also stated that while homophobia was a sin, he did not consider it homophobic to oppose gay sex.”

I think I have heard that one before actually. Oh, the joy of being a sexless gay. How many here can bear witness to that?  To be a catty little bitch for a moment, I find this guy trite and boring. I really do.