[(c) Herb Gunn/ACNS]
According to ENS in their coverage about the draft Anglican Covenant:
"We did not even think about going a legalistic or a contract route," Covenant Design Group Archbishop Drexel Gomez of the West Indies told a news briefing in the middle of the first of two days that the 2008 Lambeth Conference will spend discussing the proposed Anglican covenant.
"It's not a stick to whack people over the head with; people entered into it voluntarily so the expectation is they will observe it," said Archbishop Phillip Aspinall of Brisbane, the primate of Australia and principal spokesman for the bishops. "It is meant to be a vehicle for grace and self-limitation and mutual support and encouragement."
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If that is the case, then they had jolly well jettison the current appendix to the Saint Andrew's Draft (SAD) which is everything about whacking people over the head and being a legalistic contract and not religious covenant.
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It must be because I'm awake at an eary hour that I looked at the A on the podium and immediately thought of a pointy hat and a descriptive word often used at OCICBW and by a particular feminine Episcopalian.
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