*breathes a sigh of relief*
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highlyeccentricRob Hanks' email with some of his personal notes on assembly, and four attatched UCA documents relating to the Sexuality and Leadership matters, just got to me.
am amused to note that the new Sexuality and Leadership document says the same thing that the Assembly has been saying since 1997. However I'm very glad to hear that it does :) Obviously i would be disgruntled if the proposals not to accept for ordination any homosexual people, or any non-celibate homosexual people, had been passed. Would also have been disgruntled if, as I have a feeling some people would like *coughJohnHirtcough*, the congregation's right to decline such a minister on grounds of sexuality had been removed.
on a less happy note, one of the documents is a media release to somethng called the Assembly of Confessing Congregations, some kind of conservative sub-group that's forming. Never heard of them before. David? Chris? got any light to shed?
wouldn't want to think we're going to end up like the anglicans or anything.
anyone who hasn't got these documents or wants to read Rob's thoughts, lemme know and i'll forward the whole kit and caboodle.
there's a detailed report from the ATSI Congress in there too :s. not such cheerful reading. EMU and RA will bounce back in time- hell, they thrive on this kind of stuff, it brings latent conservatives out of the woodwork to their aid. But i have a feeling it's the Congress and our relations with them which will take the most lasting bruises.
am amused to note that the new Sexuality and Leadership document says the same thing that the Assembly has been saying since 1997. However I'm very glad to hear that it does :) Obviously i would be disgruntled if the proposals not to accept for ordination any homosexual people, or any non-celibate homosexual people, had been passed. Would also have been disgruntled if, as I have a feeling some people would like *coughJohnHirtcough*, the congregation's right to decline such a minister on grounds of sexuality had been removed.
on a less happy note, one of the documents is a media release to somethng called the Assembly of Confessing Congregations, some kind of conservative sub-group that's forming. Never heard of them before. David? Chris? got any light to shed?
wouldn't want to think we're going to end up like the anglicans or anything.
anyone who hasn't got these documents or wants to read Rob's thoughts, lemme know and i'll forward the whole kit and caboodle.
there's a detailed report from the ATSI Congress in there too :s. not such cheerful reading. EMU and RA will bounce back in time- hell, they thrive on this kind of stuff, it brings latent conservatives out of the woodwork to their aid. But i have a feeling it's the Congress and our relations with them which will take the most lasting bruises.
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Date: 2006-07-17 02:32 pm (UTC)