Ruth Gledhill’s Gafcon scoop
I think the biggest scoop in the Gafcon reporting is Ruth Geldhill’s sighting of wealthy and controversial delegate Howard Ahmanson. According to Wikipedia:1
He is reported to have “never supported his mentor’s calls for the death penalty for homosexuals”; rather, as the Orange County Register reported in 2004, “he stops just short of condemning the idea”, saying that he “no longer consider[s] [it] essential” to stone people who are deemed to have committed certain immoral acts. Ahmanson also told the Register, “It would still be a little hard to say that if one stumbled on a country that was doing that, that it is inherently immoral, to stone people for these things. But I don’t think it’s at all a necessity.”
The presence of such a multi-millionaire with a record of funding right-wing and fundamentalist campaigns may be seen by some as offering an alternative and more plausible explanation for the funding of this very expensive conference than the remarkable providence of God.
Notes- accessed 25 June 2008 [↩]