One of the questions asked of Secretary General, Canon Kenneth Kearon yesterday was whether the 3 moratoria are seen as morally equivalent. Specifically, are cross border interventions and the blessing of same sex unions equally bad; Fred Hiltz in his presidential address was quite clear that the “havoc” is being caused by the cross-border interventions.

Kearon’s answer was that there was no moral equivalence, but both are equally damaging and so both had to stop.

Whatever one’s view of which is worse or more destructive, what is being missed in this approach is the chronology or which is the cause and which the effect. Remove the cause and you remove the effect; remove the effect and the cause remains. Remove same-sex blessings (cause) and cross-border interventions would stop. Remove the cross-border interventions (effect) and same sex blessings would remain.