Bishop Catherine Roskam: Bishops who are wife beaters..

Bishops who give and take a beating
By George Pitcher, Religion Editor in Canterbury
30/07/2008

There are moments in any political conference – and I think that we should stop pretending that the Lambeth Conference isn’t a political one – when warring factions show their true colours.

There are times here in Canterbury with the Anglican Communion’s bishops when it feels like a classic Conservative Party conference of the Nineties, with everyone pretending to be united on Europe, until a Portillo-style figure stands up and says that he’d bomb Brussels because it’s full of homosexuals (or whatever).

Such a moment arrived today when the Rt Rev Catherine Roskam, Suffragan Bishop of New York, declared in a liberal magazine article that some of the bishops here at the conference are wife-beaters. the rest

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This ridiculous comment by American Bishop Catherine Roskam that some of the bishops in attendance must beat their wives is about as stupid a remark as the accusation made at the last Lambeth conference that bishops were bribed with chicken dinners to vote for Resolution 1.10. The not so subtle condescending racism directed toward the Africans apparently continues. These insulting remarks have now become a Lambeth tradition. So much for indaba.
-Raymond Dague