{"id":27680,"date":"2019-09-28T15:02:56","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T19:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=27680"},"modified":"2019-09-28T15:02:56","modified_gmt":"2019-09-28T19:02:56","slug":"diocese-of-eastern-newfoundland-and-labrador-to-ignore-marriage-canon-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/diocese-of-eastern-newfoundland-and-labrador-to-ignore-marriage-canon-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Diocese of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador to ignore marriage canon vote"},"content":{"rendered":"

At its latest synod, the Diocese of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador has voted to marry same-sex couples or, as the article below<\/a> would have it \u201chas voted in favor of marriage equality.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"The Anglican Diocese of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador has voted in favor of marriage equality.<\/p>\n

Last July, the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada voted against marriage equality within the Anglican marriage canon. However, the motion can be voted on at the provincial level as well.<\/p>\n

The vote happened during NL Synod 2019 at the Sheraton Hotel in St. John\u2019s earlier today.<\/p>\n

In total 88 per cent of Anglican delegates in attendance voted in favor of affirming marriage equality.<\/p>\n

127 votes were cast, with 112 people in favor and 15 against.<\/p>\n

Reverend Dr. Geoffrey Peddle, Bishop of the Diocese of Eastern Newfoundland & Labrador, says that in voting for marriage equality they have made the church bigger and inclusive for everyone.<\/p>\n

He says the Diocese has made it very clear that this is who they are now and how they want to move forward.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

At least Peddle is clear that “this is who they now are”. They are not the Bride of Christ, not the Body of Christ, not the ecclesia – a called out assembly, not members of the church universal. They are a group of people who marry same-sex couples: this is who they are now.<\/em><\/p>\n

Here is an updated list of dioceses that will marry same-sex couples:<\/strong>
\nDiocese of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador
\nDiocese of Western Newfoundland
\nDiocese of New Westminster
\nDiocese of Toronto
\nDiocese of Niagara
\nDiocese of Montreal
\nDiocese of Ottawa
\nDiocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island
\nDiocese of Rupert\u2019s Land
\nDiocese of Kootenay
\nDiocese of Edmonton
\nDiocese of B.C.
\nDiocese of Huron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At its latest synod, the Diocese of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador has voted to marry same-sex couples or, as the article below would have it \u201chas voted in favor of marriage equality.\u201d The Anglican Diocese of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador … 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":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[1390],"class_list":["post-27680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-eastern-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-same-sex-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27680","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=27680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}