Help Create our Petition to Launch Later This Week

[antonyh]

Originally Posted by Jamie McDaniel

Ok, the current petition text is:



However, based on this discussion, it seems like the petition text could use a revision before being widely promoted. As of now there have been 193 people sign it. On Tuesday we will announce it in an email alert and on our homepage, so it will get a surge of signers. A revision will mean we have to contact all those who have signed it prior to the revision and get their signature approval. So obviously any revision needs to be done soon.

Considering the previous criteria (able to be signed by both Episcopalians and non-Episcopalians) and the suggestions to keep the focus on Bishop Robinson's exclusion, how about:

Looks like a good rewrite to me.

[Progo35]

I signed such a petition shortly after I joined the forum. Is is still being worked on? If not, I feel that I might be able to offer some suggestions, but if it's taken care of than that isn't necessary.

[Jamie McDaniel]

Originally Posted by Progo35

Is is still being worked on?

The petition was launched last week and can be found at www.soulforce.org/petition/3

This was the first one we revised after launch and that was a bit of a pain, but I think it was worth it for the improvement.

We will probably mail it out to the archbishop when we reach 2,000 signatures. (Then again, the conference is not until 2008) This petition is not doing quite as well as our previous Dobson/Time Magazine petition. Maybe because some folks who aren't Episcopalian don't realize their voices are needed too. 1,615 signatures currently.

[antonyh]

The Times reported this today:

The head of the Anglican Church in Nigeria says that his 120-plus bishops will boycott next year’s Lambeth Conference unless the US Church halts its liberal agenda.

In an interview with The Times published today, Dr Peter Akinola, Primate of Nigeria and Archbishop of Abuja, says that he has lost faith that the Episcopal Church of the United States, which precipitated a schism with the ordination of the gay bishop Gene Robinson in 2003, will ever listen to the conservative evangelical leaders of the Global South churches of Africa and Asia.

His nearly 130 bishops meet in September to decide whether to attend the conference, the ten-yearly meeting of the Anglican Communion’s 800 bishops. Other provinces in the Global South grouping are also expected to vote soon on whether to boycott Lambeth, in the first formal mark of schism in the Anglican Church.

The failure of Nigeria to attend Lambeth would be a severe blow to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, who has always said that unity was his priority in trying to resolve the battle between evangelicals and liberals over homosexuality. The Church of England General Synod, which meets this weekend, will debate the new “covenant” drawn up to try to reach worldwide agreement on a common doctrine.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/com...cle2028610.ece

[BrentRichards]

Originally Posted by antonyh

The Times reported this today:



http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/com...cle2028610.ece

The cynic in me says "Boycotting? Well, sounds like a good year for some LGBT-affirmative votes!"

[u-dog]

Originally Posted by BrentRichards

The cynic in me says "Boycotting? Well, sounds like a good year for some LGBT-affirmative votes!"

The Lamdeth conference isn't really a legislative body. The bishops just hang out together and make statements, go clubbing, wind surfing. do a few holes of Golf... that kind of thing.

Honestly, I think the conservatives WANT to split the Anglican Communion... they are clearly NOT in a cooperative mood. I don't think Rowan can do anything to stop whats about to happen. he should just do what he knows is right and let the chips fall where they may.

[BrentRichards]

Originally Posted by u-dog

The Lamdeth conference isn't really a legislative body. The bishops just hang out together and make statements, go clubbing, wind surfing. do a few holes of Golf... that kind of thing.

See, I'm thinking like a Presbyterian again ... we never get together without having a couple good votes.

Honestly, I think the conservatives WANT to split the Anglican Communion... they are clearly NOT in a cooperative mood. I don't think Rowan can do anything to stop whats about to happen. he should just do what he knows is right and let the chips fall where they may.

That would be SO un-British (and you know I love the Brits ... Rowan is even Welsh, but truth hurts)