{"id":30904,"date":"2024-07-03T21:59:07","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T01:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=30904"},"modified":"2024-07-03T22:07:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T02:07:06","slug":"anglicans-at-the-toronto-pride-unravelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglicans-at-the-toronto-pride-unravelling\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglicans at the Toronto Pride unravelling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some Anglicans from the Diocese of Toronto at the 2024 Toronto Pride parade.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-30905\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-07-03_213234-1024x484.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-07-03_213234-1024x484.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-07-03_213234-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-07-03_213234-768x363.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-07-03_213234-1536x727.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-07-03_213234-500x237.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-07-03_213234.jpg 1824w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-30906\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-07-03_213255-1024x498.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-07-03_213255-1024x498.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-07-03_213255-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-07-03_213255-768x374.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-07-03_213255-1536x747.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-07-03_213255-500x243.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-07-03_213255.jpg 1877w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They include the usual members of clergy, but I don\u2019t see any bishops present this year. Perhaps they were hiding.<\/p>\n<p>More interesting, is the fact that the Diocese of Toronto has 54,000 people on its parish rolls all of whom Bishop Andrew Asbil <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toronto.anglican.ca\/from-our-bishops\/letter-to-the-diocese-from-bishop-andrew-june-7-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">exhorted<\/a> to fling themselves exuberantly into the month of bacchanalian cavorting. Most of them sensibly ignored him. Athrough it&#8217;s probably not unusual for his missives to be ignored.<\/p>\n<p>To my considerable satisfaction, the parade was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-ca\/news\/canada\/about-30-anti-israel-protesters-shut-down-canada-s-largest-pride-celebration\/ar-BB1piE6y?ocid=BingNewsSerp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">halted<\/a> by the Coalition Against Pinkwashing, a group of queer and trans activists from Palestinian solidarity groups, affectionately known as Chickens for KFC. Organisers then cancelled the rest of the parade.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-30907\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-07-03_214957-1024x644.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-07-03_214957-1024x644.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-07-03_214957-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-07-03_214957-768x483.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-07-03_214957-477x300.jpg 477w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-07-03_214957.jpg 1097w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When you add the squabbles between the transgender\u00a0mob and straight queers, it seems the whole enterprise is starting to unravel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some Anglicans from the Diocese of Toronto at the 2024 Toronto Pride parade. They include the usual members of clergy, but I don\u2019t see any bishops present this year. Perhaps they were hiding. More interesting, is the fact &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglicans-at-the-toronto-pride-unravelling\/\">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":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[316],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-toronto-gay-pride-parade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30904","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=30904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}