{"id":9307,"date":"2010-07-11T17:16:24","date_gmt":"2010-07-11T21:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=9307"},"modified":"2010-07-11T17:16:24","modified_gmt":"2010-07-11T21:16:24","slug":"diocese-of-montreal-whatever-you-do-dont-repeat-the-marriage-vows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/diocese-of-montreal-whatever-you-do-dont-repeat-the-marriage-vows\/","title":{"rendered":"Diocese of Montreal: whatever you do, don\u2019t repeat the marriage vows"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Diocese of Montreal has a \u201cProtocol for Use\u201d of the rite for the blessing of Civil Marriage. All of which is a euphemism for blessing same-sex unions. You can read the \u201cProtocols\u201d on page 2 here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u2018The marriage vows should not be repeated\u2019<\/strong>
\nThere is an intimate relationship between the vows of marriage and prayers of blessing which may follow them, even when there is a considerable interval of time between the two events.<\/p>\n

Nothing that is done in the blessing of a civil marriage should reflect negatively on the original exchange of vows. The blessing of a civil marriage is not a second marriage. The marriage vows should not be repeated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is pretty clear that the intent is to ratify in a Christian \u2013 or at least Anglican \u2013 setting the sexual union of same-sex partners. That liberals in the Anglican Church would like to actually marry same-sex couples is beyond doubt. They must think the timing is not quite right: that the average Montreal Anglican is not quite \u201cready\u201d<\/em>; that to do so would finally push parishioners over the edge; that conservatives haven’t quite all left yet. Thus, for the moment,\u00a0 we have “Protocols of Use”<\/em>.<\/p>\n

So whatever you do, don\u2019t repeat the marriage vows. <\/em> I did once, but I think I got away with it; yes, this is a farce.<\/p>\n

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The Diocese of Montreal has a \u201cProtocol for Use\u201d of the rite for the blessing of Civil Marriage. All of which is a euphemism for blessing same-sex unions. You can read the \u201cProtocols\u201d on page 2 here: \u2018The marriage vows … 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":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[279],"tags":[2109,1386],"class_list":["post-9307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-same-sex-blessings-2","tag-diocese-of-montreal","tag-same-sex-blessings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9307","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=9307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}