{"id":23457,"date":"2015-10-27T23:26:03","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T03:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=23457"},"modified":"2015-10-27T23:26:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T03:26:03","slug":"the-painful-anglican-church-of-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-painful-anglican-church-of-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"The painful Anglican Church of Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an uncharacteristic flash of insight, the Anglican Church of Canada\u2019s bishops have realised that overturning 2000 years of Biblical teaching on marriage by merely voting to do so, might not be what God wants. That doesn\u2019t mean they won\u2019t do it, of course: the few tenacious conservatives remaining in the ACoC haven\u2019t felt enough pain yet.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicannews.org\/news\/2015\/10\/deep-pain-anticipated-as-canada-prepares-to-debate-same-sex-marriage.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Bishops of the Anglican Church of Canada say that they recognise the \u201cdeep pain\u201d that will be caused by next year\u2019s General Synod vote on allowing same-sex marriage in Church; and question whether the Synod\u2019s parliamentary-style procedures are \u201cthe most helpful way to discern the mind of the Church, or of the Spirit, in this matter.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an uncharacteristic flash of insight, the Anglican Church of Canada\u2019s bishops have realised that overturning 2000 years of Biblical teaching on marriage by merely voting to do so, might not be what God wants. That doesn\u2019t mean they won\u2019t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-painful-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":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2032,1390],"class_list":["post-23457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-same-sex-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23457","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=23457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}