A Western cultural criticism of third world churches
Church of England Newspaper editorial.
The Lambeth Conference, scheduled to meet next year, has been given a sharp introduction by Jeremy Pemberton, the first Anglican cleric to reject his Church’s stance on marriage and enter into conjugal union with another man. He has fired a broadside at the Third World Churches in the Anglican Communion who preserve the traditional biblical teaching on sexual intercourse in the order of creation.
These Churches will boycott the conference, he says, because of a few of the other member Churches, notably Scottish, Canadian and American Churches. They have changed their understanding of marriage, of biblical ethics, and ordination to fit the LGBT+ agenda…
…Mr Pemberton assumes that his stance is incontrovertible and not debatable. His is a modern, although not post-modern, western view imposing a monochrome template on society, a society containing a real diversity of views. In the UK now traditionalists are pushed into the closet and diversity is not really in evidence under a managerial view of politics.
As noted, other faiths rejecting gay marriage are not considered by Pemberton, and that wider context would make his claim more flimsy to sustain. Likewise the worldwide ecumenical consensus across the Christian Churches, including the Eastern Orthodox, the Roman Catholic and the conservative Evangelical and Pentecostal Churches, is not with the Pemberton view of things and indeed makes the Anglican traditionalists mainline in orientation.
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