{"id":27338,"date":"2019-07-05T08:38:03","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T12:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=27338"},"modified":"2019-07-05T08:38:03","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T12:38:03","slug":"toronto-bishops-issue-pastoral-statement-on-marriage-canon-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/toronto-bishops-issue-pastoral-statement-on-marriage-canon-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto bishops issue pastoral statement on marriage canon vote"},"content":{"rendered":"

Read it all here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"\"Of all the items of business on the General Synod agenda, a lot of attention has been given to the second reading of the motion to revise Canon XXI \u2013 On Marriage in the Church to include same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n

We do not know, nor do we wish to anticipate, how that vote will go at General Synod. We hope and pray that the Holy Spirit will infuse the conversation with holiness and will guide the results of the balloting. We are all approaching General Synod in a spirit of openness to ongoing discernment.<\/p>\n

The College of Bishops, embodying as we do a breadth of theological views ourselves, is committed to remaining united regardless of the outcome. Whether the motion passes or fails, we will not be divided. We will stand together through the grace of God and by faith in our Saviour Jesus Christ, in the power of the Holy Spirit. We call upon the Diocese of Toronto to stand together with us, unified in all our glorious diversity under the banner of Christ.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I can\u2019t see much that is pastoral<\/em> about this letter. It is filled more with an air of denial and desperation than of spiritual guidance and care.<\/p>\n

Denial of the reality that the church has already fractured over same-sex marriage and desperation at the probability of the fracture widening and expressing itself as a loss of yet more members and their wallets.<\/p>\n

And nobody is “approaching General Synod in a spirit of openness to ongoing discernment”. A<\/em>nyone who has not already made up his mind about same-sex marriage has no mind to make up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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