Bill+
 
I think you put your finger on the button: "the Primates themselves lack the mechanism...."  There's really not much that can be done about it outside of ++Williams saying to ECUSA "You're no longer a part of us."  And you know that's just not going to happen.
 
MLW+

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	From: William H. Perkins, Jr. [mailto:wperkin2@...] 
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	Mark+:
	
	Good point and well taken.  I don't believe they will do any thing even with
	the report and "teeth" because the Communion and the Primates themselves
	lack the mechanism and the intestinal fortitude to enforce anything.
	Nothing will happen no matter how many reports are issued.  Twenty years
	from now ECUSA will probably still be in the Communion ordaining and
	consecrating homosexuals and everyone will think it is great to be in unity
	with them all because they were patient and knew how to appeal to people's
	emotions.  Evil likes to take advantage of the righteous when they are weak
	and naieve.
	
	Bill+
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	Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 1:46 PM
	Subject: Re: [FaithandLife] Ambition
	
	
	> Bill+,
	>
	> It is useful to recall, however, that a slight majority of those on the
	> Lambeth Committee were conservatives, with a number of Global South reps.
	> To wit, both Archbishop Gomez and Bishop Melango (not to mention an
	> episcopal star of Nigeria) were on the committee and have vocally
	> supported
	> its finding.
	>
	> Nigeria has now declared that it won't leave the Communion unless the
	> Primates fail to show backbone in February.
	>
	> I know I am in a minority in this country, but I must honestly say that I
	> was both impressed with the document (and especially with its theological
	> background work) and rather proud of the way it expressed itself.  Those
	> sentiments, however, will change dramatically if the Primates fail to make
	> use of the report.  In other words, the Windsor Report has provided the
	> mouth in which the Primates can now be the teeth.
	>
	> We shall see what happens.
	>
	> Mark+
	>
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