{"id":21391,"date":"2014-05-04T19:07:37","date_gmt":"2014-05-04T23:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=21391"},"modified":"2014-05-04T21:53:44","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T01:53:44","slug":"anglican-church-of-canadas-marriage-commission-accused-of-bias-and-theyve-barely-begun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-church-of-canadas-marriage-commission-accused-of-bias-and-theyve-barely-begun\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglican Church of Canada\u2019s Marriage Canon Commission accused of bias \u2013 and they\u2019ve barely begun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanjournal.com\/articles\/cogs-hears-concerns-about-commission\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a progress report to the Council of General Synod (CoGS) on the early work of the Commission on the Marriage Canon, chair Canon Robert Falby, noted that there had been \u201csome controversy\u201d over the membership of the committee after it was announced in early 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Critics have said that the commission does not have a balance of members who are both for and against the resolution passed at General Synod 2013, which asked CoGS to prepare and present a motion to change the church\u2019s Canon 21 on marriage \u201cto allow the marriage of same-sex couples in the same way as opposite-sex couples\u201d prior to the next General Synod in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Bishop Larry Robertson of the diocese of Yukon voiced those concerns, to CoGS meeting in Mississauga on May 3.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The only surprising thing about this, is that there is an extant ACoC clergyman na\u00efve enough to believe that the Marriage Canon Commission is anything other than a decoy to lull a few remaining orthodox clerics into a mental torpor in preparation for the predestined outcome of the marriage canon vote in 2016 and 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: In a progress report to the Council of General Synod (CoGS) on the early work of the Commission on the Marriage Canon, chair Canon Robert Falby, noted that there had been \u201csome controversy\u201d over the membership of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-church-of-canadas-marriage-commission-accused-of-bias-and-theyve-barely-begun\/\">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":[1794,1793],"class_list":["post-21391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-bishop-larry-robertson","tag-commission-on-the-marriage-canon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21391","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=21391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}