From here:
Yesterday, Archbishop Fred Hiltz met with more than 120 members and friends of the LGBTQ community in Toronto at celebration of the Holy Eucharist at St. John’s, West in Toronto.
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Yesterday’s pastoral gathering was an opportunity for the Primate to be in dialogue with a local LGBTQ community about their lives and experiences within the Church and about the resolution that will go before the General Synod in July. Archbishop Hiltz remains deeply committed to hearing the diversity of perspectives in our church about this matter as reflected in his ongoing conversations with the Bishops of our Church, Canadian participants at the Anglican Consultative Council, Canadian and African bishops in dialogue, from theological students and faculty, and from members of the Council of the General Synod among others.“I left the gathering more convinced than ever the need for the Church to take opportunity to hear first-hand the experiences and longings of LGBTQ persons,” Hiltz said. “So often we speak about instead of with the LGBTQ community. We all need to be creating these kinds of opportunities to have pastoral conversations.”
The group of people that Hiltz has no interest whatsoever in speaking to are Anglicans who experience same-sex attractions yet resist the temptation to act upon them. North American Anglicanism is, after all, predominantly interested in justifying acting on one’s urges not in denying them – other than giving up carbon lust during Lent, of course.
Gee..that many…in an Anglican Church…at one time? I’m gobsmacked.
By “the resolution that will go before the General Synod in July” I presume the article is referring to a decision to marry same-sex couples, threesomes, etc?
Hiltz’s job, as a Christian leader, is not to listen but to read, and to point out that Christians have a counter-cultural definition of marriage given to us by God the Creator and by Jesus:
“Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh.” (Matthew 19:5)
Thus five times in one utterance Jesus emphasized the core definition of Christian marriage as binary heterosexual:
male – female
father – mother
man – wife
two -> one
two -> one
Our post-Christian wider society can do whatever it wishes, but Christians follow Jesus.
Our Canadian HoB will have a special meeting from 23rd to 26th. One must pray for open minds and hearts there. I do know some members personally, and think the situation far from hopeless.
I read a news story today that said that House of Bishops would likely not approve the canon change.
So Hiltz thinks that the Church should listen to the sinners rather than bring God’s teachings about sex to them. He is not a disciple of Jesus Christ. He is a false prophet and should not be listened to!
Fred Hiltz and his apostate followers are indeed false prophets and have become worshipers of that deceptive term “political correctness”. If they were to take the honourable approach they would take off their white collars and purple shirts and find a real job. Currently they are enemies of the Gospel and are working for Satan. This is precisely why the Anglican Communion is fractured and will not be repaired until the ABC takes a firm stand for the Gospel. The primates meeting proved he has no intention of doing so.