{"id":29280,"date":"2021-10-02T15:16:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T19:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=29280"},"modified":"2021-10-04T14:42:46","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T18:42:46","slug":"anglican-church-of-canadas-position-on-covid-19-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-church-of-canadas-position-on-covid-19-vaccines\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglican Church of Canada\u2019s position on COVID-19 vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"

The ACoC does not yet ban the unvaccinated from worship services, although all dioceses as far as I know do require vaccine passports from employees and volunteers and universally for non-worship events. Some are more flexible (Edmonton, for instance) than others.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, the dioceses of Toronto, New Westminster, British Columbia, Edmonton and Fredericton are all exerting pressure on their members to become vaccinated and even encourage those who are not to stay away with statements like this<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I strongly encourage all people who are eligible to receive the vaccine be vaccinated.\u00a0 If you have not been vaccinated you may want to consider worshipping online.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Notably absent in any statement from any Anglican leader \u2013 including ACNA\/ANiC \u2013 is any concern over the fact that all currently available vaccines are dependent, to varying degrees, on organs harvested from aborted babies. I have explained my views on this here<\/a> and here<\/a>. I don\u2019t expect the church to agree with me \u2013 almost no one does \u2013 but I do expect the church, particularly ACNA\/ANiC which boasts that it is pro-life, to say something<\/em> about it.<\/p>\n

Correction:\u00a0<\/em>As a reader points out below, the US branch of Anglicans for Life has made a statement about abortion derived vaccines. You can read it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Naturally, everyone who attends a worship service has to wear a mask. You can even buy an Anglican mask:<\/p>\n

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It is cotton so it is next to useless at preventing the COVID-19 virus spreading, but at least it offers an instructive metaphor for Anglican Church of Canada clergy: completely ineffective, unfit for its alleged purpose and an empty symbol of posturing theatrical holiness. So the masks are not all bad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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