It now transpires that the Episcopal Church (TEC) of the United States went to extraodrinary lengths last week to try and influence voting in the General Synod the Church of England. In the face of a Private Members Motion asking the Synod to recognise the Anglican Church of North America (ACNA), TEC circulated a spurious memo to disuade Synod members from doing so.Their attempt thankfully failed. The Church of England Synod saw through the smoke and mirrors and voted
309 to 69 in favour of recognising ACNA as part of the worldwide Anglican Communion.
Stand Firm has kindly published the lengthy TEC spoiler.
As one commentator put it with rather wittily, "Gee, I didn’t know the liberals could hold attention long enough to read that whole thing. Awfully suspect that that much verbiage had to go to one private member motion, isn’t it? Methinks they do protest too much. Especially since the material in their print can be verified or falsified by the attentive Internet user."
