{"id":1690,"date":"2009-01-04T00:03:44","date_gmt":"2009-01-04T04:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=1690"},"modified":"2009-01-04T00:03:44","modified_gmt":"2009-01-04T04:03:44","slug":"anglican-predictions-for-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-predictions-for-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglican Predictions for 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anglican church attendance in North America will continue to decline.<\/p>\n<p>Katherine Jefferts-Schori and Fred Hiltz will stem the tide by continuing to speak with a prophetic voice: they will apologise for their heterosexuality and will work to aspire more closely to the homosexual ideal.<\/p>\n<p>Some heterosexual clergy will have a sex change operation so that they can more fully express their inner homosexuality.<\/p>\n<p>Other, more moderate clergy will become cross-dressers.<\/p>\n<p>Rowan Williams will shave his beard in order to appear more effeminate.<\/p>\n<p>Katherine Jefferts-Schori will start wearing makeup in order to appear more effeminate.<\/p>\n<p>Gene Robinson will realise that nothing he can do will make him appear more effeminate.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson will declare that he is living proof that there is a gay gene.<\/p>\n<p>Conversations and dialogue will continue on the meaning of the word &#8220;evangelism&#8221;. The provisional conclusion will be that it means &#8220;inclusion&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The North American dioceses that favour more inclusion will demand oaths of allegiance to the bishop before members are allowed to take Communion. This is how they will evangelise.<\/p>\n<p>Fred Hiltz will continue to encourage Canadian dioceses to honour the moratorium on same sex blessings &#8211; to the greatest extent possible.<\/p>\n<p>Fred Hiltz will preside at same sex blessing ceremonies in the dioceses of New Westminster, Niagara, Montreal and Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p>A mole in the diocese of Niagara will leak that Michael Bird wears platform shoes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anglican church attendance in North America will continue to decline. Katherine Jefferts-Schori and Fred Hiltz will stem the tide by continuing to speak with a prophetic voice: they will apologise for their heterosexuality and will work to aspire more closely &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-predictions-for-2009\/\">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":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690","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=1690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}