{"id":18490,"date":"2013-01-06T22:27:57","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T03:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=18490"},"modified":"2013-01-06T22:27:57","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T03:27:57","slug":"another-canadian-anglican-diocese-starts-same-sex-blessings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/another-canadian-anglican-diocese-starts-same-sex-blessings\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Canadian Anglican diocese starts same sex blessings"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Diocese of B.C.<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In 2010 I was asked by Synod to implement the blessing of same sex unions in the Diocese at
\na time that I thought to be appropriate. I was asked to issue guidelines and a rite to be used.<\/p>\n

Attached below are the Guidelines for the Blessing of Same Sex Unions in the Diocese
\nof British Columbia. \u00a0I am authorizing the blessing rite of the Diocese of New Westminster for
\nuse in this Diocese, not a specific British Columbia rite.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As every other Canadian Anglican bishop who has authorised same-sex blessing rites, Bishop James Cowan is careful to call it a blessing rite<\/i>, not a marriage.<\/p>\n

Similarly, here<\/a>, on page 2, the Diocese of Huron\u2019s Keith Nethery bemoans the fact that journalists are unable to make the distinction between blessing a married homosexual couple and actually marrying them:<\/p>\n

As an aside I can be all but 100 per cent certain that there isn\u2019t a main stream reporter any where capable of understanding the difference between a Blessing and a Marriage \u2013 trust me I have tried to explain it to them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nethery doesn\u2019t give journalists the credit they deserve for seeing through the mincing sophistry in which the Anglican Church Canada conceals its true motives, the better to befuddle the unwary. After all, homosexual marriage is legal in Canada and the ACoC clearly believes such \u201cmarriages\u201d are a legitimate expression of marriage; <\/i>if they didn\u2019t, they could hardly bless them. So why doesn’t the Anglican Church of Canada stop the hypocritical harping on the fragile distinction between blessing something that has already been done and actually doing it?<\/p>\n

Because that\u2019s how pusillanimous Anglican clergy operate. When a rector wants to move a piano from one side of the church to the other, he moves it one inch per week; it takes a year to reach the other side but no-one notices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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