{"id":8961,"date":"2010-06-10T22:04:54","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T02:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=8961"},"modified":"2010-06-10T22:04:54","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T02:04:54","slug":"anglican-general-synod-thursday-aberrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-general-synod-thursday-aberrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglican General Synod: Thursday aberrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the motions before synod this morning was <a href=\"c011:%20Ongoing%20Study%20by%20the%20Canadian%20Church\">C011<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Request that all Dioceses, ACIP, Military Ordinariate, and Religious Orders engage in theological and scriptural study of human sexuality in the coming triennium.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The ACoC, as Fred Hiltz keeps reminding us, has been studying sex (not <em>doing<\/em> it, Anglicans are dying out, remember) for about 50 years, so a decision to spend few more years pondering gender plumbing is hardly surprising. In fact, the only way to surprise an Anglican synod would be to propose a motion that recommended all studies on sex stop. That didn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, a bright spark from the Diocese of Montreal wanted to add \u201cin conversation with gay and lesbian voices\u201d to the motion; few would have the temerity to object. The trouble came when a second amendment was requested: to add \u201cex-gay voices\u201d, too. After all, there are people in the church who have overcome their same-sex attraction.<\/p>\n<p>The owner of the first amendment did not want his bit sullied with \u201cex-gays\u201d, though, so he referred to \u201cso-called ex-gays\u201d in his plea to defeat the second amendment. The only people upset by this were the ex-gays and their friends \u2013 I scarcely think anyone else noticed. However, I would dearly like to have witnessed the hysterical screeching that a reference to \u201cso-called gays\u201d would have provoked. Very similar to drawing a cartoon of Mohammed on the wall of the Badshahi Mosque in Pakistan, I should think.<\/p>\n<p>I found myself quite irritated by the spectacle, but I am consoling myself with the prospect of calling the ACoC a \u201cso-called church\u201d until my nerves are soothed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the motions before synod this morning was C011: Request that all Dioceses, ACIP, Military Ordinariate, and Religious Orders engage in theological and scriptural study of human sexuality in the coming triennium. The ACoC, as Fred Hiltz keeps reminding &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-general-synod-thursday-aberrations\/\">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":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[2160],"class_list":["post-8961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gs2010-2","tag-gs2010-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8961","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=8961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}