{"id":24081,"date":"2016-07-09T23:23:49","date_gmt":"2016-07-10T03:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=24081"},"modified":"2016-07-09T23:25:21","modified_gmt":"2016-07-10T03:25:21","slug":"preparing-the-fudge-at-general-synod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/preparing-the-fudge-at-general-synod\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing the fudge at General Synod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A plot is afoot to prepare delegates for something other than a yes or no decision for the marriage canon vote \u2013 resolution C003 \u2013 on Monday. The liberals fear that the vote will not go their way so machinations are underway to produce the desired result no matter what the outcome of the vote. Something less &#8220;binary\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanjournal.com\/articles\/don-t-prejudge-same-sex-marriage-vote-says-commission-chair\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24082\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/panel-300x126.jpg\" alt=\"panel\" width=\"500\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/panel-300x126.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/panel-768x323.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/panel-500x210.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/panel.jpg 936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But he [Dean Iain Luke] added that given the deep divisions that exist within the Canadian Anglican church on matters of doctrine, the church should look at new ways of framing its decision-making process that do not inevitably lead to a binary of winners and losers.<\/p>\n<p>It was a position Ambidge agreed with.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think the Westminster parliamentary system is serving us well for things other than budgets,\u201d he said. \u201cFor things that hit us not in the head or the heart but the soul, I think we need to learn a whole lot from the Indigenous people, because Westminster is really not helping us at all.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here is the fellow on the left after he slipped into something more comfortable \u2013 less binary, perhaps \u2013 for the Pride Parade:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24085\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/QueenChris.jpg\" alt=\"QueenChris\" width=\"334\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/QueenChris.jpg 427w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/QueenChris-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A plot is afoot to prepare delegates for something other than a yes or no decision for the marriage canon vote \u2013 resolution C003 \u2013 on Monday. The liberals fear that the vote will not go their way so machinations &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/preparing-the-fudge-at-general-synod\/\">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":[2370,1390],"class_list":["post-24081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-gs2016","tag-same-sex-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24081","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=24081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}