Thursday, June 19, 2008

Nigerian primate shaken, not stirred

The Anglican Archbishop of Nigeria, who has admitted to leaping away in shock when he found he'd just shaken the hand of a gay man after a church service, has thrown the right-wing Gafcon event into disarray because the Kingdom of Jordan, where the Fred Phelpses of worldwide Anglicanism are meeting to plan new efforts to either take over or abandon the worldwide communion.

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Apparently unable to function without their chief bigot, the delegates gathered in Amman for some prefunc networking all had to pile into buses and schlep it over to Jerusalem several days ahead of schedule. The Times' Ruth Gledhill will be blogging live from Gafcon.

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