Dr Williams said in a statement early today: "The decision will inevitably have a significant impact on the Anglican Communion throughout the world and it is too early to say what the result of that will be.
"I have said before that we need as a church to be very careful about making decisions for our own part of the world which constrain the church elsewhere.
"It will be vital to ensure that the concerns and needs of those across the Communion who are gravely concerned at this development can be heard, understood and taken into account," Dr Williams said.
David Usborne Independent Uk 06 August 2003{I'm not an Anglican, but it seems there might be a need for broader consensus than even the Rev. Dr. Williams lays out. The church itself being founded and organized around extra-terrestrial principles, possibly the consent of some of the non-resident membership should be sought.}
meanwhile:
A federal judge today ordered Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore to remove an enormous Ten Commandments monument from the lobby of the state Judicial Building.
U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson lifted his stay and began enforcement of his decision that the religious display violates the First Amendment. Moore now has until Aug. 20 to remove the monument, Thompson�s order stated.
Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which sued Moore on behalf of Alabama citizens, lauded Thompson�s order. (The Southern Poverty Law Center and the Alabama ACLU joined with Americans United in the lawsuit against Moore.)
�Roy Moore has defied the Constitution long enough,� said the Rev. Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United. �The monument is a blatant government endorsement of religion, and Moore should remove it promptly.�
Moore�s attorneys, however, have continued to insist that the federal court has no authority to order the monument out of the courthouse, setting the stage for a possible confrontation.
Lynn urged Moore to comply with the order.
�It would be a tragedy if Moore and his allies try to defy the federal court�s ruling,� Lynn said. �Many Americans sadly remember when George Wallace stood in the schoolhouse door in Alabama in an effort to deny racial minorities their rights 30 years ago. It would be a shame if Roy Moore tries to stand in the courthouse door today to do the same to religious minorities.�
Thompson ruled in 2002 that Moore�s placement of the monument breaches the constitutional wall separating religion and government, and the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously upheld Thompson�s ruling on July 1.
The 11th Circuit�s decision in Glassroth v. Moore, caused uproar among Moore�s supporters and in the U.S. House of Representatives, which recently approved an amendment to a spending bill that declared no federal funds could be used to enforce the ruling.
commondreams August 5, 2003Maybellene!
why caintcha be true?
Ooh Maybellene
why caintcha be true?
you done started back
doin those thangs you useta do.
the immortal Chuck Berry
"Chuck Berry has two stories to tell in his autobiography. The first is of a black man's experiences in racist White America; the second is of a biracial man in multicultural America, the land of opportunity. Most of his life does not make sense without the first story�his skin was black, his cultural upbringing was African-American, and everyone he met�white and black�considered him "black." But his music cannot be understood without coming to terms with the second story.
The two passages he uses to frame the autobiography underscore the importance of his integrationist vision. He begins the book by tracing his mixed ancestry in the ante-bellum South to a white plantation mistress and her black house servant, and then chuckles that his grandfather, William Berry, "had a knack for getting along with the opposite sex, especially a fair-haired damsel." He then goes on to relate his strong Chihuahua Indian ancestry. At the end of the book, he opines, ""The time is coming,...when all races and nationalities in the United States will be merged into, let's say, 'Americanese' people." As Berry makes clear earlier, he had already created the soundtrack to this integrationist utopia�it was called rock'n'roll."
semiotic Chuck Berry bio by Michael Goldberg at Univ Wash
