{"id":27260,"date":"2019-06-27T08:36:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T12:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=27260"},"modified":"2019-06-27T14:48:31","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T18:48:31","slug":"six-views-on-the-marriage-canon-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/six-views-on-the-marriage-canon-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Six views on the Marriage Canon vote"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Anglican Church of Canada is shying away from making definitive theological statements about issues it considers difficult. For example, the ACoC has made no coherent statements on the rightness or wrongness of abortion, euthanasia or changing the marriage canon. Instead we are exhorted to listen to people\u2019s stories<\/em>: theology by anecdote. In areas where it should have at least a modicum of expertise, the church is completely at sea; issues such as global warming, whose understanding requires detailed technical knowledge that the church does not possess, are the constant\u00a0 subject of dogmatic, “binary” denunciations and pious outbursts.<\/p>\n

Here<\/a> are six people\u2019s views on changing the marriage canon, a conundrum which, we are told, has \u201cno easy answers\u201d. Rubbish, there is a perfectly easy answer derived from Scripture, one which has been the foundation of the church\u2019s position on marriage for 2000 years.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, of the six people, those in favour of same-sex marriage include a lesbian clergywoman, a lesbian who is \u201cpart of the queer community\u201d who doesn\u2019t attend an Anglican church and an openly homosexual layman who does attend an Anglican church. The three supporting orthodox Christian marriage are all Anglican laypeople.<\/p>\n

\"\"As delegates to General Synod prepare to vote on a second reading of Resolution A051-R2, potential changes to the Anglican Church of Canada\u2019s marriage canon, the Anglican Journal<\/em>\u2019s editorial staffers have given much consideration to our task. What should we write? What should readers hear before the vote?<\/p>\n

Few topics have further challenged the church\u2014in recent years, at least\u2014than same-sex marriage. Is love or tradition more important? Could God make the two mutually exclusive? Should the church hold people back or press people forward, unwillingly in either case?<\/p>\n

There are no easy answers to these questions, as acknowledged by the \u201cA Word to the Church<\/a>\u201d document about the proposed amendment of marriage canon and potential amendments, proposed by Council of General Synod in March, to the resolution considered in 2016.<\/p>\n

[…..]<\/p>\n

The Journal<\/em>\u2019s decision was to share the words of people like Natalie: people with lived experiences that extend beyond a yes-or-no question. The Journal<\/em>\u2019s Joelle Kidd and Tali Folkins spoke with six Anglicans\u2014three in favour of the resolution and three opposed to it\u2014to ask them:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Anglican Church of Canada is shying away from making definitive theological statements about issues it considers difficult. For example, the ACoC has made no coherent statements on the rightness or wrongness of abortion, euthanasia or changing the marriage canon. … 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":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[280],"tags":[2355],"class_list":["post-27260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-same-sex-marriage-2","tag-marriage-canon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27260","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=27260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}