{"id":25975,"date":"2018-06-04T23:31:29","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T03:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=25975"},"modified":"2018-06-04T23:34:35","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T03:34:35","slug":"possible-human-rights-complaints-after-marriage-canon-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/possible-human-rights-complaints-after-marriage-canon-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Possible human-rights complaints after marriage canon changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicanjournal.com\/articles\/amended-marriage-canon-would-not-leave-traditionalists-open-to-human-rights-complaints-chancellor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-25976\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/David-Jones-1-copy-1024x685-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"144\" \/>The officer of General Synod who advises the Anglican Church of Canada on canon law and legal matters says he\u2019s \u201cabsolutely confident\u201d that human-rights complaints made against clergy who refuse to perform same-sex marriages would fail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHuman rights legislation recognizes freedom of religion and of religious organizations, and I am absolutely confident that that complaint would be dismissed,\u201d Canon (lay) David Jones, chancellor of General Synod, told Council of General Synod (CoGS) at a session dedicated to the marriage canon Saturday, June 2.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am quite sure that eventually there will be a human-rights complaint against a clergyman who refuses to perform a same-sex marriage. David Jones\u2019s confidence that it would fail misses the point: would the Anglican Church of Canada pay the legal bills and fines of the refusing clergyman? Will pigs fly?<\/p>\n<p>If the church is not legally bound to defend an employee who is being hounded by the HRC, all reassurances are worthless since the hapless cleric could be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.campaignlifecoalition.com\/shared\/media\/editor\/file\/PersecutionOfChristians(1).pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">financially ruined<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On a brighter note, Dean Peter Wall plans to leave the church and crawl into a hole if the marriage canon change does not pass. Liberals love to harp on about \u201cwalking together\u201d in spite of disagreements. But that only applies if they win.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Peter Wall, dean of the diocese of Niagara and chair of the General Synod planning committee, said with a strained voice he feared he would leave the church if the vote were to fail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy fear is that if the resolution is defeated, I cannot stay in the church,\u201d he said. \u201cI really fear that I would walk away and never come back into a church again, and take all my leadership, and all my experience\u2026And I\u2019m afraid I would crawl into a hole.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: The officer of General Synod who advises the Anglican Church of Canada on canon law and legal matters says he\u2019s \u201cabsolutely confident\u201d that human-rights complaints made against clergy who refuse to perform same-sex marriages would fail. \u201cHuman rights &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/possible-human-rights-complaints-after-marriage-canon-changes\/\">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":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[280],"tags":[617,2355],"class_list":["post-25975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-same-sex-marriage-2","tag-cogs","tag-marriage-canon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25975","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=25975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}