The Diocese of Huron’s Bishop Robert Bennett is unhappy that the Anglican Church of Canada is divided over marrying same-sex couples. At least, he claims to be.
It’s hard to believe he is crying anything but crocodile tears, though, since Bennett willingly contributed to the division by authorising same-sex blessings in 2013 and same-sex marriages in 2016. Does this make him a hypocrite? You decide.
From here:
Among the most troubling things he witnessed as bishop, Bennett said, was the divisiveness caused by the issue of human sexuality.
“I think it’s taken a great toll both within congregations and the House of Bishops,” he said. “That issue—and it’s still there—is always front and centre in the house, and it makes it very difficult for me, and I think everybody else, to embrace and focus on what we’re really about as church.”
Discord over human sexuality came to a head in the diocese of Huron only a matter of weeks after Bennett became diocesan bishop, when members of St. Aidan’s Church, in Windsor, voted to leave the Anglican Church of Canada and join the conservative Anglican Network in Canada (ANiC). Members were upset about recent moves in some dioceses to bless same-sex unions. In 2011, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice ruled that the parish could not legally separate itself from the diocese.
Bennett said he had also found it difficult to see the shrinking of congregations in the diocese, attributable partly to declining populations in some areas and partly to the “vortex of change” set in motion by the secularization of culture.
This so-called bishop is retiring and I sincerely hope and pray that he will come to repent of his apostasy which has contributed to the split within the Anglican Communion. He is one of many so-called bishops that have come to believe that their word is superior to THE WORD and have totally rejected the authority of the Scripture. He is also one of the apostates that have legally stolen properties from orthodox Christians. It is long since past the time for ALL to realize that the issue is NOT liberalism versus conservatism but rather apostasy versus orthodoxy. If the issues were brought before a Christian Court the outcomes would have been different. Again I will strongly state that genuine Christians should immediately cease ANY contributions to any church within the Anglican Church of Canada and seek to become part of the Anglican Network which is clearly orthodox.
Since the liberals claim that all church buildings belong to them, it would be utterly wrong for Christians to pay to maintain them.
You are much too polite to refer to them as “liberals”. The correct terminology is “apostates” as they reject the authority of Scripture and consider their reasoning to be superior to THE WORD.
Not upset about what he did; only that the consequences proved inconvenient for himself and his chums.
“…secularization of culture.”?? How about secularization of his church?
“That issue—and it’s still there—is always front and centre in the house, and it makes it very difficult for me, and I think everybody else, to embrace and focus on what we’re really about as church.”
It is, precisely, what they are really about as [a] church.