{"id":27965,"date":"2020-02-10T22:32:41","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T03:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=27965"},"modified":"2020-02-11T09:02:13","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T14:02:13","slug":"christ-church-anglican-to-conduct-same-sex-marriages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/christ-church-anglican-to-conduct-same-sex-marriages\/","title":{"rendered":"Christ Church Anglican to conduct same-sex marriages"},"content":{"rendered":"

The rector, Rev. Yme Woensdregt, of Christ Church Anglican in the Diocese of Kootenay, thinks this is \u201cquite wonderful\u201d whereas, in reality for today\u2019s Canadian Anglican church, it is rather common-place and mundane. There is no wonder in it at all.<\/p>\n

What is<\/em> interesting about it is that it is billed as same-gender marriage not same-sex marriage. Sex is, of course, determined by chromosomes but gender, we are told<\/a>, is a social construct. The church has already moved on \u2013 as I knew it would \u2013 from same-sex marriage to the marriage of a biological man who identifies as a woman to a\u00a0 biological woman who identifies as a man. Or any possible permutation thereof. If you are not confused yet, I expect you soon will be when the ACoC concocts its next yet more inclusive and improved marriage m\u00e9nage.<\/p>\n

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

\"\"Christ Church Anglican in Cranbrook has officially received permission from Bishop of Kootenay Lynne McNaughton to perform same-gender marriages.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s quite wonderful,\u201d said Rev. Yme Woensdregt of Christ Church, \u201cand our congregation is \u2014 as I say, three or four years ago it was almost unanimous [in support of same-gender marriage] and that has not changed. For most of us, we don\u2019t see why that ought to be a problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

Woensdregt explained that in 2016 they received permission from previous Bishop of the Diocese of Kootenay, John Pivett, to bless a civil marriage of same-gender people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The rector, Rev. Yme Woensdregt, of Christ Church Anglican in the Diocese of Kootenay, thinks this is \u201cquite wonderful\u201d whereas, in reality for today\u2019s Canadian Anglican church, it is rather common-place and mundane. There is no wonder in it at … 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":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2609],"tags":[2632,1390],"class_list":["post-27965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-kootenay","tag-christ-church-anglican","tag-same-sex-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27965","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=27965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}