From here:
In a progress report to the Council of General Synod (CoGS) on the early work of the Commission on the Marriage Canon, chair Canon Robert Falby, noted that there had been “some controversy” over the membership of the committee after it was announced in early 2014.
Critics have said that the commission does not have a balance of members who are both for and against the resolution passed at General Synod 2013, which asked CoGS to prepare and present a motion to change the church’s Canon 21 on marriage “to allow the marriage of same-sex couples in the same way as opposite-sex couples” prior to the next General Synod in 2016.
In fact, Bishop Larry Robertson of the diocese of Yukon voiced those concerns, to CoGS meeting in Mississauga on May 3.
The only surprising thing about this, is that there is an extant ACoC clergyman naïve enough to believe that the Marriage Canon Commission is anything other than a decoy to lull a few remaining orthodox clerics into a mental torpor in preparation for the predestined outcome of the marriage canon vote in 2016 and 2019.
They probably have the findings of the Commission already written up and will just be looking for comments to support their “findings”
I fully agree with tonyh16. If the ACoC was genuinely interested in support of the Gospel, there would be no need for a commission. The teaching of Scripture is clear and those clergy who want to change the Gospel should take off their white collars and find another job.
The teaching of Scripture is obviously unclear: we’re all arguing about it. In any case, if it were clear, Christianity would have died off ages ago. It’s the blurry nature of its teachings that makes a religion endure.
Sorry Vincent but I must disagree with you, again. God’s Holy Scripture is perfectly clear. Male and female He created them, it is for that reason that there is no such thing as same-sex-marriages. The problem lies with those who refuse to accept that this is the way that God has made things, and so they turn away from God’s Holy Word, and in so doing also turn away from God himself. And that is the crux of the entire problem, a “church” that has embraced the ways of the secular world at the cost of no longer being a Christian Church.
Another point, the Christian Religion, which is the only True Faith, endures only as long as the True Beliefs are maintained, preserved, and protected. Once a Church stops doing this and becomes just a church it starts to die. Witness the death of the Anglican Church of Canada.
Okay.
I don’t think our cousins across the Tiber are the least bit blurry, they don’t submit to cultural pressures and they are the dominant Christian voice.
I’m not sure if anyone else is reading the submissions to the commission but it is really interesting. Approximately 75% of the submissions are against the blessing of same sex marriages. This may surprise some on this site. It will be interesting to see how the commission uses these submissions.
On a related note, there is at least one submission by a former ACoC member (Matthew Shawn Doumichal’s submission). Perhaps some of you on this site who are also former ACoC members would like to submit as well.