{"id":29614,"date":"2022-06-02T15:43:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T19:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=29614"},"modified":"2022-06-02T22:04:26","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T02:04:26","slug":"june-the-anglican-church-of-canadas-favourite-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/june-the-anglican-church-of-canadas-favourite-month\/","title":{"rendered":"June, the Anglican Church of Canada\u2019s favourite month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That\u2019s because June is Pride Month, a time when ACoC clergy can abandon themselves to urges that must lurk suppressed the rest of the year beneath their black frocks and fossil-fuel derived plastic white collars: four glorious weeks of homoerotic public cavorting, a non-binary bacchanalia of barrenness.<\/p>\n<p>To that end, the Diocese of Niagara is having a 2SLGBTQIA+ \u201cworship experience\u201d on June 12<sup>th<\/sup> in its cathedral:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29615\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/2022-06-02_151839.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"778\" height=\"728\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/2022-06-02_151839.jpg 778w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/2022-06-02_151839-300x281.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/2022-06-02_151839-768x719.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/2022-06-02_151839-321x300.jpg 321w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 778px) 100vw, 778px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Not to be outdone, the youth of St. Aidan\u2019s in the Huron diocese have, under the tutelage of the rector, <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/8878452\/london-ont-church-art-project-lgbtq2\/\">been painting rainbow doors<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-29616\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/2022-06-02_153216-1024x482.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/2022-06-02_153216-1024x482.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/2022-06-02_153216-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/2022-06-02_153216-768x362.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/2022-06-02_153216-500x235.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/2022-06-02_153216.jpg 1219w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/>Youth at a London, Ont., church are showing their support for the LGBTQ2+ community with a bright and colourful art installation.<br \/>\nSt. Aidan\u2019s Anglican Church unveiled its \u201cGod\u2019s Doors are Open to All\u201d project on Saturday.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s an installation of multi-coloured doors in the colours of the rainbow as a reminder to all who are LGBTQ2+ that our church is a safe (and) welcoming space,\u201d said Kevin George, the rector of St. Aidan\u2019s.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ironically, in the 2SLGBTQIA+ etc, etc, &#8220;community&#8221;, all is not rainbows and fairy dust. There is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/saskatoon\/people-of-colour-say-racism-exclusion-fetishization-rampant-in-lgbtq-communities-1.6471430\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">racism and discrimination<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>People of colour say racism, exclusion, fetishization, rampant in LGBTQ+ communities<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen Lia Mighty came out as lesbian, she thought she would find solace in the community of &#8220;rainbows, unicorns and love&#8221;; rather, she experienced &#8220;racial comments and discrimination.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been called n&#8212;-r at least eight times within the LGBTQ+ community,&#8221; said Mighty, a musician and model from Montreal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The ACoC is constantly lamenting that it is riddled with systemic racism; no wonder it feels so at home revelling in this milieu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That\u2019s because June is Pride Month, a time when ACoC clergy can abandon themselves to urges that must lurk suppressed the rest of the year beneath their black frocks and fossil-fuel derived plastic white collars: four glorious weeks of homoerotic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/june-the-anglican-church-of-canadas-favourite-month\/\">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":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-niagara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29614","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=29614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}