{"id":23833,"date":"2016-03-03T19:06:27","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T00:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=23833"},"modified":"2016-03-03T21:35:08","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T02:35:08","slug":"anglican-bishops-in-a-3-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-bishops-in-a-3-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglican Bishops in a 3-way"},"content":{"rendered":"

On same sex-marriage, the ACoC bishops fall into one of the following categories: No<\/em>, Yes<\/em> and Maybe.<\/em><\/p>\n

Fred Hiltz thinks \u2013 as does Justin Welby \u2013 that the three can co-exist, walk together<\/em> to use Anglican jargon. They can\u2019t for one simple reason: liberals will not stop promoting their same-sex marriage agenda \u2013 ever; not until they have their way.<\/p>\n

Once again the \u201cspirit\u201d \u2013 not, I am quite sure, the Holy Spirit \u2013 is invoked to legitimise what for 2000 years the church has deemed illegitimate. How could this not be the spirit of the age?<\/p>\n

Read it all here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

When it comes to allowing same-sex marriage, the bishops seem to be thinking \u201cyes,\u201d \u201cno\u201d and \u201cmaybe\u201d in roughly equal proportions, Hiltz said. A number of bishops in the Canadian church also have a \u201choly desire\u201d to consider alternatives to a simple yes-no vote on same-sex marriages, he said. Some have given considerable thought to other alternatives, and these are likely to be the main topic of conversation when the House of Bishops next meets in April, he added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The article makes perfectly it clear, once again, that the main preoccupation of Western Anglican bishops is sex – just like everyone else. The comical thing about this is that the bishops genuinely seem to believe it will garner the world’s approval when all it does is heap well deserved derision on an institution that tries to do what everyone else does but ends up doing it with less panache.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On same sex-marriage, the ACoC bishops fall into one of the following categories: No, Yes and Maybe. Fred Hiltz thinks \u2013 as does Justin Welby \u2013 that the three can co-exist, walk together to use Anglican jargon. They can\u2019t for … Continue reading →<\/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":[2032,1250,1390],"class_list":["post-23833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-primate-fred-hiltz","tag-same-sex-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23833","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=23833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}