{"id":27433,"date":"2019-07-17T09:09:50","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T13:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=27433"},"modified":"2019-07-17T09:15:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T13:15:37","slug":"anglican-church-to-review-governance-structure-after-same-sex-marriage-change-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-church-to-review-governance-structure-after-same-sex-marriage-change-fails\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglican Church to review governance structure after same-sex marriage change fails"},"content":{"rendered":"

The failure of the vote to amend the marriage canon will make no practical difference to same-sex couples who want to marry in an Anglican church. Dioceses that are inclined to permit same-sex marriage are going ahead regardless of the vote.<\/p>\n

That is still not enough for those in the church who favour same-sex marriage, as we saw from their extraordinary histrionics<\/a> at synod when the results were announced. Nothing but complete affirmation will satisfy; just as at the end of Stalin’s speeches, the applause was unanimous and sustained because everyone was afraid of being the first to stop. I strongly suspect that, had the vote passed, the next hurdle for the alphabet crew would be to compel priests who disagree with same-sex marriage to perform them anyway in much the same way as the attempt to force Christian bakers to embellish their cakes with gay propaganda.<\/p>\n

Although the vote didn\u2019t pass, there will be another synod in three years. That gives the ACoC plenty of time to change the rules so that it passes next time.<\/p>\n

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

\"\"One of Canada’s largest Christian denominations will spend the next three years considering whether to change its governance structure amid outrage that just two bishops’ votes stood in the way of having same-sex marriage recognized by the Church’s laws.<\/p>\n

Some in the Anglican Church of Canada say the current system to alter doctrine and policy — which requires a two-thirds majority from three groups of delegates — unfairly gives the most voting power to a small group of bishops.<\/p>\n

The denomination’s outgoing senior officers in charge of its tri-annual policy meeting said Tuesday that the Church will look at ways it can change its governance structure between now and the next General Synod in 2022.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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