The Anglican Church of Canada has ruptured itself over the issue of blessing same-sex couples and, by doing so, has staked its future on attracting some of them to replace the conventional families who have fled its heretical clutches.<\/p>\n
The ACoC is in luck: Statistics Canada has reported a 42% increase in same-sex couples over the last five years.<\/p>\n
Unhappily for the ACoC, the percentage of same-sex couples is still only at 0.69% of the total number of couples. How many of them attend an Anglican church I wonder? Not many, and most of those who do are employed by the church as priests.<\/p>\n
From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n The face of the Canadian family is changing.<\/p>\n There are more common-law couples, single parents and same-sex couples heading households than ever before, according to the latest data released Sept. 19 from Statistics Canada\u2019s 2011 Census of Population.<\/p>\n And while the traditional family structure\u2014mother, father and children\u2014still accounts for two-thirds of all Canadian families, the number of traditional families as a proportion of all families declined from 2006 to 2011.<\/p>\n The census counted a total of 9,389,700 families in 2011. Of these, 67 per cent consisted of married couples, down from 70.5 per cent a decade ago. In contrast, common-law couples increased by 13.9 per cent in 2011 and single-parent families rose by 8.0 per cent that same year.<\/p>\n The number of same-sex married couples \u201cnearly tripled\u201d between 2006 and 2011\u2014the five year period following the legalization of same-sex marriage in Canada. The census counted 64,575 same-sex couple families in 2011, an increase of 42.4 per cent from 2006. (Statistics Canada later stated that the number of same-sex married couples may have been overestimated by as many as 4,500.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Anglican Church of Canada has ruptured itself over the issue of blessing same-sex couples and, by doing so, has staked its future on attracting some of them to replace the conventional families who have fled its heretical clutches. The … Continue reading