{"id":24197,"date":"2016-07-16T00:35:28","date_gmt":"2016-07-16T04:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=24197"},"modified":"2016-07-16T00:35:28","modified_gmt":"2016-07-16T04:35:28","slug":"primate-fred-hiltz-is-unable-to-prevent-his-bishops-performing-same-sex-marriages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/primate-fred-hiltz-is-unable-to-prevent-his-bishops-performing-same-sex-marriages\/","title":{"rendered":"Primate Fred Hiltz is unable to prevent his bishops performing same-sex marriages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The truth, I suspect, is that Hiltz has no interest in stopping a bishop performing same-sex marriages because he is entirely sympathetic to the idea. A plea of impotence is rather convenient for him since he hopes it will absolve him from any culpability that could result in <em>consequences<\/em> imposed by the next up the chain in ecclesiastical eunuchs, Justin Welby.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanjournal.com\/articles\/primate-says-he-can-t-stop-bishops-from-allowing-same-sex-marriages\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, says he understands why some bishops have chosen to go ahead with the solemnization of same-sex marriages, even though the marriage canon (church law) cannot be officially changed until it is voted on again at General Synod 2019.<\/p>\n<p>He also stressed that he has no jurisdiction over diocesan bishops to stop them from doing what they want on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs primate, I have no authority to say to a bishop, \u2018You can\u2019t do that and you must not do that,\u2019 \u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The truth, I suspect, is that Hiltz has no interest in stopping a bishop performing same-sex marriages because he is entirely sympathetic to the idea. A plea of impotence is rather convenient for him since he hopes it will absolve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/primate-fred-hiltz-is-unable-to-prevent-his-bishops-performing-same-sex-marriages\/\">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":[2145,1390],"class_list":["post-24197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-fred-hiltz","tag-same-sex-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24197","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=24197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}