JERUSALEM: Gay-Baiting Secular British Media Misses GAFCON Message
News Analysis
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
6/30/2008
In all my years as a journalist, first working on large city dailies, then Christian magazines, a brief stint as an Episcopal Diocesan Managing Editor and now as an Internet Online news writer, whose website annually draws more than 4 million readers from 172 countries, I have never encountered such appalling spin, outrageous lies, pure mendacity and gay-baiting towards a group of godly men and women of orthodox faith as I encountered recently in Jerusalem by the secular press.
It all began with “The Telegraph” newspaper calling the Amman/GAFCON meeting a “shambles”. This was followed by an eight-member editorial piece in the “Telegraph” telling Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, that he should not tolerate this gathering even though they represent the vast majority of Anglicans worldwide - a perfect example of British xenophobia, statism, and paternalism of the worst kind.
