Why we need an ACL

Posted on July 31, 2008 
Filed under Opinion

Rev Todd Wetzel– That’s not the title of the Rev. Todd Wetzel’s report from Canterbury, but the American experience shows what can happen when committees and synods take on a life of their own, not representing the local churches.

In 2000, I called the Rev. Canon Gene Robinson the most dangerous man in the Episcopal Church.

Before you jump to conclusions, let me say that I was very clear that it was not because I considered him a “bad” person. Quite the contrary, he was (and is) very articulate, a capable and well liked priest, intelligent, reasonably good looking, a skilled consultant who was (and is), by his own admission, non-celibate and a person of homosexual orientation. As a member of the diocesan staff, he was well known locally. I called him ‘dangerous’ because he was elect-able. And, if elected, and consecrated, chaos would emerge within the Episcopal Church and the Communion. …

Read his full post at Anglicans United. (See also the ACL’s Policy Objectives.)