{"id":15712,"date":"2012-02-21T11:08:28","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T16:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=15712"},"modified":"2012-02-21T11:08:28","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T16:08:28","slug":"st-georges-anglican-church-montreal-to-receive-government-hand-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/st-georges-anglican-church-montreal-to-receive-government-hand-out\/","title":{"rendered":"St. George&#039;s Anglican Church, Montreal to receive government hand-out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/media-advisory-government-of-canada-to-announce-support-to-st-georges-anglican-church-national-historic-site-2012-02-21\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Media Advisory: Government of Canada to Announce Support to St. George&#8217;s Anglican Church National Historic Site<\/p>\n<p>MONTREAL, QUEBEC, Feb 21, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) &#8212; On behalf of the Honourable Peter Kent, Canada&#8217;s Environment Minister and Minister responsible for Parks Canada, the Honourable Judith Seidman, Senator, will make an infrastructure announcement regarding the conservation and presentation of the St. George&#8217;s Anglican Church National Historic Site.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"georges.org\" target=\"_blank\">St. George\u2019s<\/a>, is an historic site and will be a recipient of government largesse; to put it another way, taxpayers will pay for its upkeep.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not averse to paying for the upkeep of an historically or aesthetically significant building, but there is a degree of irony in a church degenerating to this status: the activity for which it was built \u2013 housing worshipping Christians \u2013 can no longer attract enough people to pay for its upkeep. Or, more correctly, the Anglican Church of Canada\u2019s confused, sub-Christian concoction of neo-paganism and eco-cultism is not attracting enough people.<\/p>\n<p>The irony is reinforced by that fact that the Anglican Church of Canada has recently spent a great deal of money on lawsuits to wrest the ownership of buildings for which it has no use and can\u2019t afford to maintain from those who could both use and maintain them.<\/p>\n<p>How long before Bishop Michael Ingham declares St. John\u2019s Shaughnessy an historic site worthy of taxpayer support? It\u2019s running a <a href=\"..\/diocese-of-new-westminster\/st-johns-shaughnessy-is-like-a-mausoleum\/\" target=\"_blank\">deficit of $20,000<\/a> per month at the moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: Media Advisory: Government of Canada to Announce Support to St. George&#8217;s Anglican Church National Historic Site MONTREAL, QUEBEC, Feb 21, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) &#8212; On behalf of the Honourable Peter Kent, Canada&#8217;s Environment Minister and Minister responsible &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/st-georges-anglican-church-montreal-to-receive-government-hand-out\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2032,1457,1461],"class_list":["post-15712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-st-georges-anglican-church-montreal","tag-st-johns-shaughnessy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}