Monopoly on Biblican truth

There was a meeting of 300 conservative Anglican bishops in Jerusalem recently. They plan to boycott the once-a-decade Lambeth Conference later this month and want the whole Anglican Communion top stop reinterpreting the bible to suite modern trends and to return to more traditional roots -- such as, they claim, was practiced at the time of Jesus. Though the group is united in opposition to homosexuality, they are not in agreement on other conservative issues, such as letting women be bishops.

They now declare that the current Archbishop of Canterbury, the head of the whole Anglican Communion, unfit for the job because he isn't able to discipline wayward groups and they call on him to resign. They talked about forming their own world-wide organization, but stopped short of an actual split.

An English Bishop responds:

"[T]o be told that I now need to be authorised or validated by a group of primates somewhere else who come in and tell me which doctrines I should sign up to is not only ridiculous it's deeply offensive.

"The idea that they have a monopoly on Biblical truth simply won't do and we must stand up to this, it's a kind of bullying. 'We're the true gospel people, therefore you must listen to us'." …

"When one finds people coming high-handedly, who don't actually know what's going on, and say, 'We've now drawn up this list of 14 points and you've got to sign up to them and then we'll authorise you and you can be part of our club, and if you don't then we're going to sweep you aside'... anyone has a right to feel angry when faced with that kind of thing."