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Goodbye to the Anglican Church of Canada
With the recent vote to officially endorse same-sex marriage, the Anglican Church of Canada has at last demonstrated its faithless and apostate leaders. True Christians must receive out.
Commenting on the animation and thought of Nietzsche G.K Chesterton set forth a universal truth, that “The man who thinks without the proper first principles goes mad…”[1]Madness would increasingly seem to be the right term to describe the decisions of Canadian Anglicanism. Their up-to-date first principles being wrong, doctrinal and ecclesiastical idiocy is the result. Their foundation has ceased to be the Word of God in much of the church. Instead, man’s own will is permitted to rule and decide truth and justice. The insightful Canadian philosopher George Grant understood the contemporary cultural view well:
Justice is understood to be something strictly human, having nothing to do with obedience to any divine instruct or conformity to any pattern ‘laid up in heaven.’ Moral principles, like all other social conventions A lot has happened since I last wrote for Common Threads in May. The Anglican Church of Canada&#;s General Synod did not move beyond the second needed vote to affirm same-sex marriage across the church. This was a heartbreaking loss for all queer Christians in Canada, as we were again reminded how many people view us as not REAL Christians. Oh, and our minister &#; the one who was going to marry us regardless of how the vote went &#; left our church with no warning or explanation. My partner, Katy, and I were left wondering who was going to wed us in February. We are getting married in an Anglican church so the logical response would be an Anglican priest, right? But I&#;m not Anglican &#; I grew up Roman Catholic, moved to the United Church of Canada more than a decade ago, and possess been attending my partner&#;s Anglican church with her for the last three years. I hold several friends who are United Church ministers, plus a few close Quaker friends. Katy and I were both stressed about this &#; did we yearn a stranger to marry us? Was it importa The Anglican Church of Canada - which has more than , members - has rejected a motion to modify its definition of marriage to embrace same-sex unions. The Anglican Church of Canada has rejected a motion to modify its definition of marriage to embrace same-sex unions. Source: Press Association But though lay delegates and members of the clergy voted largely in favour of the move late Friday in Vancouver, they did not encounter the two-thirds threshold among the bishops. The motion had been approved in a first vote at the last general assembly three years ago, but it needed to be validated at two meetings in a row. An Anglican church delega Some members of General Synod genuflect their head in prayer before the vote on same-sex marriage is called. Photo: Art Babych [Anglican Journal] A resolution to transform the marriage canon (church law) to allow for the solemnization of marriages of same-sex couples failed to pass by a fraction of a percentage point at the Anglican Church of Canada’s General Synod July The vote, which required a two-thirds majority in each of the orders of laity, clergy and bishops, received % support from the laity and % from the bishops, but only % from the clergy — % shy of the % needed. The vote came after a five-hour legislative session on the floor of synod, in which more than 60 members from all orders and regions of the church spoke about their help, opposition and ambivalence concerning the motion before them. Many members expressed sorrow that no matter how they voted, it would bring about pain to someone. Many members told highly personal stories of their control treatment as LGBTQ [Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer] people, in
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