{"id":17694,"date":"2012-10-21T00:25:13","date_gmt":"2012-10-21T04:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=17694"},"modified":"2012-10-21T00:25:13","modified_gmt":"2012-10-21T04:25:13","slug":"the-anglican-church-of-canada-suppresses-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-anglican-church-of-canada-suppresses-free-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"The Anglican Church of Canada suppresses free speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used to leave comments on Anglican Journal articles but gave up doing so because they never appeared. I am <a href=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/abortion\/international-day-of-the-girl\/#comments\" target=\"_blank\">not the only one<\/a>: it seems that the ACoC can tolerate anything except disagreement.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/nwanglicanblog.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/31\/the-theological-roots-of-the-kairos-funding-fiasco-lest-we-forget\/\" target=\"_blank\">excruciatingly dull blog<\/a> that exudes like a foetid ectoplasm from the Diocese of New Westminster expunged a dissenting view on St. Matthews Abbotsford:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Note on Another Matter:<br \/>\nnwanglicanblog received a lengthy response to a recent posting that comments on the move of the ANiC congregation in Abbotsford out of its former physical facilities. This response will not be posted on the blog as it reiterates familiar arguments and makes disparaging statements that do not contribute to the advancement of the Gospel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Since the Diocese of New Westminster&#8217;s expertise lies mostly in the art of breaking up the Anglican Communion, it\u2019s hard to see how it could harbour the conceit that it is, itself, in any way advancing the Gospel, especially since Michael Ingham went to some lengths to prevent one of the world\u2019s foremost evangelical thinkers \u2013 J. I. Packer &#8211; from setting foot on any diocesan property.<\/p>\n<p>I have been blocked from following the twitter feed from the Diocese of Niagara for fear, presumably, that I might make an unflattering remark about its contents.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the Anglican Church of Canada does love <em>conversation<\/em>; just don\u2019t question the tergiversations of its hierocracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to leave comments on Anglican Journal articles but gave up doing so because they never appeared. I am not the only one: it seems that the ACoC can tolerate anything except disagreement. The excruciatingly dull blog that exudes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-anglican-church-of-canada-suppresses-free-speech\/\">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":11,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2032,774],"class_list":["post-17694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-free-speech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17694","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=17694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}