Canadians Still Leading the Pack in the Anglican Communion

An article in the New York Times reported today that in Vancouver, British Columbia, The Right Reverend Michael Ingham, Anglican bishop of the greater Vancouver area is quoted as saying about the resistance of the religious right to blessing same-sex unions:
"Conservative Protestants and evangelicals who have vilified the pope for years have now found themselves in alliance with a conservative pope on issues of sexual morality," he said. "What you are seeing across the world is a realignment of global religion where the forces of conservatism are finding more cause with each other across religious boundaries than within their own religious traditions."

The conservatives, he says, want to roll back the 18th century Enlightenment "because it brought rationalism and individualism into the Western world." He adds with a giggle, "The fact that it delivered us from superstition and church imperialism is forgotten."

Once he begins throwing darts at the right, there is no stopping. "Conservatives say you cannot pick and choose, but that's exactly what they do because the same texts that condemn homosexuality condemn the eating of shellfish," he said. "I haven't heard any conservative churchman campaign against shellfish in the last few years."

You Go, Bishop Ingham!!