{"id":17751,"date":"2012-10-26T12:22:32","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T16:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=17751"},"modified":"2012-10-26T12:22:32","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T16:22:32","slug":"the-future-of-the-family-according-to-the-anglican-church-of-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-future-of-the-family-according-to-the-anglican-church-of-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"The future of the family according to the Anglican Church of Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This cartoon was published in the November edition of the Anglican Journal:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17753\" title=\"Family\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Family1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"471\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It refers to a report from Statistics Canada that claims a 42% increase in same-sex couples over the last five years. It seems the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgilldaily.com\/2012\/09\/2011-census-reports-increase-in-same-sex-couples\/\" target=\"_blank\">report is flawed,<\/a> since room-mates who are married \u2013 not to each other \u2013 could have been counted as same-sex couples.<\/p>\n<p>No matter: even if the report is accurate, the percentage of same-sex couples is still only at 0.69% of the total number of couples.<\/p>\n<p>What is interesting about the Journal\u2019s publishing of this cartoon is that, yet again, the compulsive obsession the church has with legitimising homosexual activity has blinded it to the transparently obvious fact that the future of the family does not reside \u2013 and can never reside &#8211; in people of the same sex being barrenly &#8220;married&#8221; to each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This cartoon was published in the November edition of the Anglican Journal: &nbsp; It refers to a report from Statistics Canada that claims a 42% increase in same-sex couples over the last five years. It seems the report is flawed, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-future-of-the-family-according-to-the-anglican-church-of-canada\/\">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":[2032,2167,1391],"class_list":["post-17751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-homosexuality","tag-same-sex-marriege"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17751","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=17751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}