{"id":22326,"date":"2014-12-20T13:00:10","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T18:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=22326"},"modified":"2014-12-20T13:00:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T18:00:10","slug":"anglican-standing-commission-urges-the-anglican-church-of-canada-not-to-amend-the-marriage-canon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-standing-commission-urges-the-anglican-church-of-canada-not-to-amend-the-marriage-canon\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglican Standing Commission urges the Anglican Church of Canada not to amend the marriage canon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanjournal.com\/articles\/anglican-communion-body-urges-church-not-to-change-marriage-policy#sthash.FPZmR3bk.dpuf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Unity, Faith and Order (IASCUFO) has urged the Anglican Church of Canada not to amend its marriage canon (church law) to allow the marriage of same-sex couples, saying such a move would \u201ccause great distress for the Communion as a whole, and for its ecumenical relationships.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The IASCUFO\u2019s statement came in response to a request from the Canadian church\u2019s Commission on the Marriage Canon for an opinion about proposed changes to Canon 21 that would allow for same-sex marriages. Canon Kenneth Kearon, secretary general of the Anglican Communion, decided IASCUFO would be the \u201cmost appropriate\u201d body within the Communion to deal with such a question.<\/p>\n<p>The Anglican Church of Canada has the prerogative \u201cto address issues appropriate to its context,\u201d the IASCUFO said, but it noted the ramifications of \u201ca change of this magnitude\u201d for the Communion and its ecumenical partners. In a letter addressed to Canon Robert Falby, chair of the marriage canon commission, IASCUFO members said they were unanimous \u201cin urging you not to move beyond your present policy of \u2018local option,\u2019 \u201d which allows dioceses to choose whether or not they will offer same-sex blessings. They noted that the absence of a General Synod decision about the blessing of same-sex unions or same-sex marriages \u201chas given space for the rebuilding of fragile relationships across the Communion.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When deciding whether to allow the blessing of same-sex civil marriages, the ACoC delegated downwards: the ever slippery national church has made no statement that unequivocally gives its approval for same-sex blessings, yet it doesn\u2019t censure individual dioceses that do. In this way, the ACoC nurtures the hope that it will not be held accountable for the chaos created by its sexual agenda.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll be interested to see how the ACoC attempts to wriggle out of accepting responsibility for continuing with the marriage canon discussions; there aren\u2019t enough conservatives left in the dwindling denomination to prevent the almost inevitable marriage canon change, yet there can\u2019t be a <em>local option<\/em> marriage canon.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the church will abdicate its responsibility by exiting the marriage business altogether.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: The Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Unity, Faith and Order (IASCUFO) has urged the Anglican Church of Canada not to amend its marriage canon (church law) to allow the marriage of same-sex couples, saying such a move would \u201ccause &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-standing-commission-urges-the-anglican-church-of-canada-not-to-amend-the-marriage-canon\/\">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":20,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2032,1793,1929],"class_list":["post-22326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-commission-on-the-marriage-canon","tag-iascufo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22326","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=22326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}