Listening - NOT

I've written about the Anglican Communion Listening Process and the failure of the Anglican Communion to follow through on any of the Lambeth Conference Resolutions about such a process. Philip Groves' promised study guide has just been released. Episcopal Cafe's The Lead has a brief post and is not impressed:

All well and good, but the book does not do what Resolution 1.10 at Lambeth 1998 suggested that it do. It does not listen to the experiences of gays and lesbians. Rather it listens to perspectives about them. It may be a valuable book, but the change in charge represents a failure of nerve at the highest level of the Communion. It is a tacit admission that some of the leaders of our communion are so bigoted that they will not allow gays to speak for themselves unless space is provided in the same forum for others to speak against them.

Note these two key sentences:

It does not listen to the experiences of gays and lesbians. Rather it listens to perspectives about them.

And this surprises us how? I'm guessing this will get dragged out just like the one we attempted here in the Episcopal Church.

Here's the "Listening" Process' site on the Anglican Communion web site, should you decide you want to learn more about it.

Peace,
Jeffri