Primates of the Anglican Church

Tanzania, Africa

I'm not making this one up...

According to the dictionary, a "primate" means " a mammal like a human or a monkey with flexible hands and feet."

A "primate" is also what a high-ranking official of the Anglican church is called.

So I guess to have flexible hands and feet is not enough to solve the problem of gays and women within the Anglican church.

What do the mammals with "flexible minds" are called?

And what kind of a stark raving lunacy is it to hope that a church in Tanzania (for God's sake!) will solve the problems of the Episcopelians in Falls Church, Virginia? Have these folks ever traveled to Tanzania and do they have any idea about the living and social conditions over there? It's not exactly a Jeffersonian democracy, you know... What's got into the drinking water of the Episcopelians of Virginia?

While the Tanzanians are trying to grab a visa and hop on the next plane to JFK, American Episcopelians are checking out the house prices in Dar-el-Salaam. Beautiful.

Falls Church, Virginia

Watch out -- it may be a divine joke that the Anglican churches in Virginia are located in a town named "Falls Church." Something is falling. And it's the whole church.

Perhaps they need a traffic sign in the streets of Falls Church, VA similar to those "Caution! Rocks Falling" signs. "Caution -- Church falling!"

Or a British bumper sticker -- "I'd rather be a Tanzanian than gay"

How about "Tanzania or bust"?

How many Anglican Primates does it take to change a light bulb? Two. One to fly down to Tanzania and another to ask the Tanzanians to change it for him (since it cannot be "her").

When American Episcopelians cannot make peace with the British Anglicans, how do the American and British forces in Iraq expect the Shiites and the Sunnis make peace?