{"id":27460,"date":"2019-07-18T09:01:26","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T13:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=27460"},"modified":"2019-07-18T09:12:11","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T13:12:11","slug":"anglicans-describing-their-own-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglicans-describing-their-own-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglicans describing their own reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Popular culture would have it that Truth is relative and subjective: you have your Truth, I have mine and we can all get along.<\/p>\n<p>Now Reality itself has suffered the same fate in the Anglican Church of Canada. According to Bishop Susan Bell, there is no objective Reality. Each diocese \u201cdescribes its own reality\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/hamilton\/anglican-church-niagara-same-sex-marriage-1.5215450\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-27461\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2019-07-18_085822-1024x587.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2019-07-18_085822-1024x587.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2019-07-18_085822-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2019-07-18_085822-768x441.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2019-07-18_085822-500x287.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2019-07-18_085822.jpg 1832w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/>The bishop of Diocese of Niagara says she isn&#8217;t surprised the Anglican Church of Canada voted against recognizing same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026.]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I really lament the pain for our LGBTQ2S+ community,&#8221; says Bell,\u00a0 &#8220;and for everybody who desired this change.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But she says that, &#8220;We went into the vote with something in our back pockets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s talking about a document that was drafted before the vote, that allows each diocese to decide individually if it wants to recognize same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n<p>The Niagara diocese already recognized same-sex marriage, before the vote, but Bell says she understands that there are some dioceses and bishops that have not gone ahead with that.<\/p>\n<p>She says the document allows each diocese to describe their own reality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular culture would have it that Truth is relative and subjective: you have your Truth, I have mine and we can all get along. Now Reality itself has suffered the same fate in the Anglican Church of Canada. According to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglicans-describing-their-own-reality\/\">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":8,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[2553],"class_list":["post-27460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-niagara","tag-bishop-susan-bell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27460","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=27460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}