{"id":20689,"date":"2013-11-23T22:53:23","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T03:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=20689"},"modified":"2013-11-23T23:19:20","modified_gmt":"2013-11-24T04:19:20","slug":"as-the-anglican-world-turns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/as-the-anglican-world-turns\/","title":{"rendered":"As the Anglican World Turns"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2007, the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada decided that blessing same sex unions is consistent with the core doctrine of The Anglican Church of Canada<\/a>. I\u2019m not sure I could present a convincing argument against that: the core doctrine<\/i> of the ACoC meandered away from Biblical truth a few decades ago, so embracing something explicitly forbidden in the Bible fit\u2019s quite comfortably within the increasingly porous confines of what passes for core doctrine<\/i> in the ACoC.<\/i><\/p>\n

Still, resolution A186 provoked considerable debate, much of it bitter. As a result, the 2010 General Synod, rather than restarting the debate on same-sex unions and their place within the ACoC, came up instead with a sexuality discernment statement<\/a>. In seven paragraphs, it manages to use \u201cconversations\u201d six times, \u201cdialogue\u201d six times, \u201cdiscernment\u201d six times, \u201cdiverse\u201d and its variations four times and \u201ctransparency\u201d twice; \u201cChrist\u201d was mentioned twice as well, but I expect that was an oversight. \u201cSex\u201d, ostensibly what the document was about, was mentioned just once, thus confirming the obvious: the statement was prophetic propaganda from the ACoC\u2019s department of missional disinformation. It was designed to obfuscate and divert attention away from the issue.<\/p>\n

The 2013 General Synod unravelled much of the sterling work of its predecessor. Resolution C003<\/a> asked the Council of General Synod to go a significant step further than same-sex blessings and \u201cprepare and present a motion at General Synod 2016 to change Canon XXI on Marriage to allow the marriage <\/strong>of same sex couples\u201d (my emphasis).<\/p>\n

At the recent COGS meeting, Fred Hiltz said<\/a>:<\/p>\n

When Resolution C003 passed, \u201cthe truce was broken and once again we find ourselves in the midst of chaos,\u201d Hiltz quoted these bishops as having said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The chaos was always there even though the 2010 GS tried to pretend otherwise; a few members of COGS, heads firmly in the sand, wish to return to the halcyon days of 2010 Anglican fence-sitting:<\/p>\n

[s]ome wondered whether there was a way to \u201ccome up with a neutral recommendation\u201d at General Synod.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Like it or not, same-sex marriage is coming to the Anglican Church of Canada eventually. There are only two ways of stopping it: the ACoC ceases to exist before it summons the backbone to announce a decision or God decides it is worth saving after all and brings repentance to its clergy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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