{"id":24784,"date":"2017-02-17T21:54:01","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T02:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=24784"},"modified":"2017-02-17T22:14:06","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T03:14:06","slug":"ex-dean-of-the-diocese-of-montreal-give-the-church-of-england-the-benefit-of-his-insight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/ex-dean-of-the-diocese-of-montreal-give-the-church-of-england-the-benefit-of-his-insight\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex Dean of the Diocese of Montreal gives the Church of England the benefit of his insight"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2011 Paul Kennington was installed as Dean<\/a> of Christ Church Cathedral in the Diocese of Montreal. Kennington is in a same-sex civil partnership with Jonathan Bailey, so he would have had little difficulty blending in with the prevailing ethos of the diocese \u2013 he was imported from the UK since, presumably, there were no qualified gay Canadian applicants for the job.<\/p>\n

Kennington has now returned to the UK, is a priest in \u201can inclusive\u201d church<\/a><\/em> in the Diocese of Chelmsford and is continuing what he sees as his calling to straighten \u2013 unstraighten, really \u2013 the church of England out on its antediluvian view of sex.<\/p>\n

He does get one thing right. He says: \u201cThe bishops \u2026 really need to catch up with what the clergy are doing in the church\u201d<\/em>. There are many actively homosexual clergy in the Church of England. It\u2019s time for the bishops to acknowledge the fact and either take disciplinary measures or admit that homosexual sex is permissible and ratify the pronouncement by approving same-sex marriages, giving the Church of England a head start in jostling with North American Anglicans for the first to be sucked into the vortex of extinction.<\/p>\n

From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

AN OPENLY gay priest has praised The Church of England\u2019s clergy for throwing out a report that refuses to recognise same-sex marriages.<\/p>\n

Father Paul Kennington, parish priest of St Andrew\u2019s Church in Leytonstone, said the House of Clergy were \u201cbrave\u201d to reject the report put together by the House of Bishops.<\/p>\n

The church\u2019s synod voted against the report that upholds marriage as a lifelong union between a man and a woman, at a general assembly on Wednesday, February 15.<\/p>\n

Fr Kennington said: \u201cAs a gay man seeing your church talk about you as if you are an issue doesn\u2019t feel good and I was delighted the report wasn\u2019t taken note of.<\/p>\n

[\u2026..]<\/p>\n

The Anglican Church of Canada recognises same-sex marriage while the Anglican Church of England does not. It recognises same-sex relationships and civil partnerships.<\/p>\n

Fr Kennington said: \u201cI have been open about my relationship with Jonathan for 22 years while I was working in four parishes. This is not something new.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe bishops have this idea that they are holding the church together but they really need to catch up with what the clergy are doing in the church.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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