UPDATE: “Carey on … my wayward son!”

I had wondered the same thing when I originally posted THIS on the former Archbishop’s remarks.

David Mills hones in …

“Carey really shouldn’t complain about his disciples. A man who has driven his car off a cliff and boasts of his success ought not to condemn the man who in imitation gets in the car and drives it off the same cliff.

And oddly enough, that thoughtfulness is revealed in the treatment of homosexuality to which both I and George Carey object. Williams wrote at the end of an essay titled “The Body’s Grace,” collected in Theology and Sexuality (edited by Eugene Rogers and published by Blackwells in 2002) that:

In a church that accepts the legitimacy of contraception, the absolute condemnation of same-sex relations of intimacy must rely either on an abstract fundamentalist deployment of a number of very ambiguous biblical texts, or on a problematic and nonscriptural theory about natural complementarity, applied narrowly and crudely to physical differentiation without regard to psychological structures.” Source

Now that’s profound! Anyone accepting the legitimacy of contraception is on the slippery slope (very sorry, there) toward approving of all manner of sexual deviance. Hello Dawn?

But, returning to the topic at hand, last week I asked: What should non-Episcopalians hope for in the upcoming General Convention?

When it comes to those still struggling within the Episcopal Church, it may all just boil down to lyrics from another Kansas song …

I close my eyes, only for a moment, and the moment’s gone
All my dreams, pass before my eyes, a curiosity
Dust in the wind, all they are is dust in the wind
Same old song, just a drop of water in an endless sea
All we do, crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see …