From here:
The Anglican archbishop for Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island has declared he would perform same-sex marriages and permit other churches in his diocese to do the same.
Archbishop Ron Cutler’s declaration comes after the church’s national body narrowly voted not to recognize same-sex marriages late last week.
“There is, I think, a majority of people within the diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island who are in favour of widening our understanding of marriage to include people in the LGBTQ2+ community,” Cutler told CBC’s Mainstreet on Monday.
Cutler, who spoke during a phone interview from Vancouver, said there were “cries of anguish” followed by “three or four minutes of stunned silenced” following the vote.
I’m waiting for a diocese to announce that it will honour the vote, although it’s possible that those who will (the Arctic, for example) might just keep quiet about it.
The actions of these so-called bishops but more correctly called APOSTATES show they have absolutely no recognition of the authority of SCRIPTURE with their only desire to appear good within their community. I can only ask when are the true CHRISTIANS – if there are any left within the now APOSTATE CHURCH OF CANADA. The authority of Scripture clearly surpasses the actions of these apostates.
Thanks, David, for your continued posts about the disarray in the AC of C. You are correct, the hyped up vote for the last three years has been a gigantic farce. It makes my leaving the Anglican church last October, after 63 years, seem anti climactic! What a joke, each Bishop just doing whatever they feel like. They were merely pretending to need the “stamp” of legitimacy, …but who cares, we’ll just go ahead anyway. I love your blog!
Hey Elisabeth, I enjoyed and admired your comments on the Anglican Journal article. Thank you.
I too enjoy and admire your comments there. This of mine is still “awaiting moderation” after several hours:–
We need to be fully aware that if the bizarre notion that people of the same sex can be married had become embodied in a change to the Marriage Canon in our denomination, the ACoC would have departed not just from reason but from the Church Catholic. The cause would have been complex, but would have certainly included the fact that a majority both clerical and lay had voted out of a profound philosophical, theological and biblical naivety. People voted at General Synod just now who believed some or all of the following falsehoods: That the Holy Scriptures are ambiguous about same-sex physical intimacy; that we may not know what were the convictions and practice of the Lord Jesus; that the phenomenon was different in the ancient world; that the behaviour of those with same-sex leanings is genetically pre-determined; that Christian love requires us to ‘bless’ same-sex ‘unions’; that people of the same sex can consummate sexually; and that all love may legitimately find an intimate physical expression. As I wrote in my Brief to the national Commission: “It is important to note that none of these positions is held by serious biblical and theological professionals: for instance, even those very few scholars who hold that the Scriptures are mistaken acknowledge that they are wholly adverse to same-sex practice. For none of these positions has the case ever been made outside advocacy scholarship, for the very sound reason that such a case cannot be made, and the most positive thing that may be said of such views is that they are less than informed. That busy bishops and other leaders unequipped with the tools of the trade have not tested them is venial. What is less excusable is that our Church has not until now asked any of the tiny handful who are so equipped to contribute.” I am one of that tiny handful worldwide who are so equipped.
This is a basic information kit:–
1. https://www.amazon.ca/Bible-Homosexual-Practice-Texts-Hermeneutics-ebook/dp/B0071OSK6O
2. https://www.amazon.ca/Homosexuality-Bible-Dan-Via/dp/080063618X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
3. https://www.amazon.ca/Holy-Homosex-Priscilla-D-M-Turner/dp/1482347865
4. https://www.amazon.ca/Love-How-Deep-Three-Souls/dp/1775106225/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1331946835&sr=8-2
5. There is at least one highly relevant sermon in this volume: https://www.amazon.ca/We-Believe-Understanding-Nicene-Creed/dp/1775106233/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=we+believe+nicene&qid=1552265227&s=gateway&sr=8-1
Items 3, 4 and 5 are now posted for free download, reading and printing here: https://www.anglicansamizdat.net/wordpress/dr-priscilla-turner/?fbclid=IwAR1MBeDj6z-Lsq2JXSKw9Y03CZiB6oW8ayr1wCHTpgFdSfkB6uF4XOA1R_M
Was not this the same Diocese that under a faithless act of subterfuge at General Synod in Ottawa, exposed by objecting Clergy in the September 2013 ‘Anglican Journal’, initiated this anti-Scriptural business on the recommendation of a mere student for the Priesthood (NS) and a complicit Lay Commissioner (PEI)?
All with the Blessing of the Incumbent Primate.
+ “The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means;
and My People love to have it so:
and what will ye do in the end thereof?
Behold, The WORD of The LORD is unto them a reproach;
they have no delight in it.” + Jeremiah chs. 5, 6, 7. 8.
OK, repercussions are pending for a great many dioceses ‘to go their own way’ following this synod. There will soon be no “glue” spiritually or ecclesially, to hold this renegade church together.
So what have you got left? 4 years? 8 years?
Based upon what is occurring now, you have emotionally incontinent children, abdicating adults, and renegade bishops.
Have fun with that.