{"id":29320,"date":"2021-11-11T22:38:03","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T03:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=29320"},"modified":"2021-11-11T22:38:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T03:38:03","slug":"diocese-of-toronto-institutes-vaccinated-only-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/diocese-of-toronto-institutes-vaccinated-only-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Diocese of Toronto institutes vaccinated only services"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the interests of inclusion<\/em> (or, depending on one\u2019s perspective, to illustrate the meaning of doublethink) the Diocese of Toronto is permitting parishes to hold worship services where proof of vaccination is required for attendance.<\/p>\n

I can foresee some problems with this. Suppose an unvaccinated individual who identifies as non-binary shows up; should ze be turned away? The conflict of competing wokery in denying entrance to a 2SLGBTQQIA1+ unvaccinated individual could, at the very least, induce clergy heart failure and, at worst provoke the onset of the apocalypse.<\/p>\n

Read it all here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"\"But it has been pointed out to us that, due to our welcome of the unvaccinated, some other people have now been unintentionally excluded because they are immuno-compromised. These are individuals who cannot attend church or any public place where the unvaccinated may be present, as they are especially vulnerable, despite being themselves vaccinated. Their exclusion was never our intention.<\/p>\n

To that end, we have heard the request from some parishes to offer services with a vaccine mandate, requiring proof of vaccination for entry.<\/p>\n

After much discussion, consultation and prayer, the College of Bishops has consented to permit parishes to institute a new worship service \u2013 outside of their existing and continuing schedule of services \u2013 that requires proof of vaccination to attend.<\/strong> It is the College\u2019s expectation that these restricted-entry services will be the exception to our worship offerings, and not the norm.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the interests of inclusion (or, depending on one\u2019s perspective, to illustrate the meaning of doublethink) the Diocese of Toronto is permitting parishes to hold worship services where proof of vaccination is required for attendance. I can foresee some problems … 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":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[2635,2687],"class_list":["post-29320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-toronto","tag-covid-19","tag-mandatory-vaccination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29320","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=29320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}