The way they work is as follows: a person who steps on to the crosswalk as a man will find he has turned into a woman by the time he steps off on the other side of the road. And vice versa.
The City of Toronto will be posting warning signs on the crosswalks advising those who do not wish to have their chromosomes rearranged to find another crosswalk.
Rev. Maggie Helwig, rector of St. Stevens in the Fields in Toronto made the bold assertion – one among many – in the video below; that particular revelation occurs at 14:09.
In fairness to the Rev. I think she comports herself with more dignity than her interrogators, which is a shame because I disagree with much of what she says and agree with much of what they say, even though I find the way they say it rather grating.
To an outsider, I suspect Rev. Helwig would have won this confrontation.
This took place on Baldwin St. in Toronto:
Whenever the Anglican Church of Canada’s Justice Camp rears its annual inclusive summer head, I always wonder whether, this year, it will be located where it belongs in Oceania. Although it won’t, it will be hosted by the next best thing: The Diocese of Huron.
The ostensible theme for those needing a safe space to in which converse in Anglican Doublethink is “Respect”.
The Anglican Church of Canada rarely communicates in anything but arcane code, replete with inner meanings, secret passages and hidden trapdoors. Respect for whom? Those who disagree with same-sex marriage, perhaps?
Don’t be silly.
From here:
Ever pondered the blessings and challenges of being #LGBTQ? Let’s talk. Register with an [sic] friend by June 21st and you will both get $50 off the registration fee: https://justicecamp.ca/
And now for some light relief from same-sex marriage: we encountered this fine fellow on our morning walk today (click on an image for a better view):
From Dr. Priscilla Turner:
Whitsuntide 2019.
Your Grace,
An Open Letter
Thank you for your recent letter asking me as a member of the Order of the Diocese of New Westminster to support your ministry with money.
Firstly, I commend you for your policy of permitting no same-sex ‘marriages’ to be solemnised in the Diocese of New Westminster until the Marriage Canon is changed to make this legal.
Secondly, we need to be fully aware that if the bizarre notion that people of the same sex can be married becomes embodied in a change to the Marriage Canon in our denomination, the ACoC will have departed not just from reason but from the Church Catholic. The cause will be complex, but will certainly include the fact that a majority both clerical and lay have voted out of a profound philosophical, theological and biblical naivety. People will vote at General Synod this summer, other things being equal, who believe 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 facknowledge 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.
In the little window of opportunity which remains, all thinking and prayerful Anglicans will I pray avail themselves, both for themselves and for those who vote, of some/all items in this basic information kit:–
And pray.
In the first magisterial book I am quoted; of the other four I am a contributor/editor/part-author/author. I own the copyright of items 3, 4 and 5. David Jenkins has done a lovely job of hosting the text of these three books. You may read and download freely, and print out for yourself from here: https://www.anglicansamizdat.net/wordpress/dr-priscilla-turner/ . One can obtain paper in a 6 x 9 in. size which will work perfectly.
O Love How Deep, the second illustrated edition, exists in several formats now for purchase as follows:–
ISBN: 978-1-7751062-2-7 (sc)
ISBN: 978‐1‐7751062‐0‐3 (sc)
ISBN: 978‐1‐7751062‐1‐0 (hc)
ISBN: 978‐1‐77084‐994‐5 (e)
Apart from having illustrations, some minor slips of fact and presentation are corrected, some notes are added; in addition I no longer see the need for certain of the original fictionalisations, so names of famous schools, Oxbridge colleges, big churches and the like are defictionalised. For a list of the main surviving fictionalisations please apply to me. They are for the protection of a number of people living and dead.
The remaining titles are for sale in one format only.
These files may be distributed freely. I’m not concerned with making money from my writing.
Relevant short papers are:–
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/your-neighbour-yourself-luke-1027-dr-priscilla-turner-1/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20141124013550-135532881-the-sheep-and-the-goats-who-are-they/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/rom-1-dr-priscilla-turner/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/rom-12-dr-priscilla-turner/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mt-527-32-dr-priscilla-turner/
I have been a member of this Diocese since 1971, serving frequently on Parish Council, and as Synod Delegate or Alternate, as part of Canonical Committees, and I was sent to represent my Parish on successive Advisory Committees as part of the Canonical process. I trust that in future I may be able to assist your ministry with money; but that will happen only if one of two conditions are fulfilled: if the vote at this summer’s General Synod is adverse to the proposed change to the Marriage Canon, and you will respect that within your own jurisdiction; or if your own vote was adverse to it however it goes. I recognise that the latter choice will mean changing your own thinking. John Henry Newman spoke a wise word when he said “To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.”
Yours respectfully,
Priscilla Turner
Dr. P.D.M. Turner [B.A., M.A. Cantab., M.A., D.Phil. Oxon., O.D.N.W.]
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-priscilla-turner-46948139
http://PriscillaTurner.imagekind.com
Cc: His Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury
Members of the Canadian House of Bishops
The Anglican Communion Alliance
The Anglican Church in North America
The Global Anglican Future Conference
The Revd. Dr. J.I. Packer
The Revd. Mr. George Eves
The Revd. Mr. Craig Tanksley
The Rector and Wardens, Holy Trinity Vancouver
The Revd. Mr. David Kellett
This evening I watched a couple of episodes of a BBC murder/mystery/spy series call “Collateral”. It was well done and entertaining but, since it was produced by the BBC, it was laced with the usual generous lashings of political correctness. I’ll confine myself to commenting on the antics of an Anglican priest who made her first appearance in episode 1.
We first see her when she enters her church, sits in an empty pew, looks up and says “God, I’m a mess”. “Fair enough”, I thought, it’s a fallen word, we are all a mess: at least she believes God exists, a major concession in the BBC’s portrayal of Church of England vicars. I was fully prepared for her to be the villain of the piece, but it was not to be.
She was a kind and generous lady vicar, a daring, outrageous scripting mistake for the BBC, I thought. However, my pessimism was soon rewarded. The reason for her being portrayed sympathetically became clear: she was a lesbian in an open sexual relationship with a young girl. Not only that, her bishop couldn’t censure her because he had a male lover. She had “come out”, he had not, so she occupied the high moral ground.
For those of us who labour under the delusion that the Church of England can’t succeed at anything: we are wrong, and I apologise for my part in propagating this error. The Anglican church has made tremendous strides in convincing the world that humanity’s chief virtue lies in being not just homosexual, but openly homosexual.
Justin Welby would be proud.
To celebrate Pride Month (yes, it’s a whole month now), Christ Church Deer Park Anglican church in the Diocese of Toronto is putting on a Pride Celebration Service and Drag Show with Vanity a la Mode, Jada Hudson, Carlotta Carlisle and Kyle Miller. I’m not recommending that you click on those links but they are there if you simply must.
Someone asked:
child friendly or adults only?
The answer, lending an entirely new meaning to “child friendly”, was:
Absolutely child friendly.
From here (page 4):
Being a Queer Wife and Fierce Mother
BY ELIZABETH WELCH
Every Saturday, my wife, Danelle, reads my sermon and every Sunday she helps me vest before worship. She is my partner in all things and I could not fully live into either my vocation as a priest or my vocation as a parent without her by my side. I did not grow up dreaming of being a mother, yet unexpectedly becoming the parent of a teenager was a heaven-sent gift. Every day my prayers of thanksgiving begin thus, “Thank you for my wife and daughter; thank you for our family.”
We had the “most churchy” wedding, said one of our friends. We fought long and hard to get here. I’ve been spat on, told to “burn in hell,” called “an abomination,” and informed that I am “unchristian and disgrace to the Church.” The daily micro-aggressions that occur within and outside the world of the Anglican Church include being glared at when I hold my wife’s hand, being asked “what went wrong” that made me the way I am, and having to explain ad infinitum that we are “actually” married and that we are a “real” family.
All these experiences make it painful to watch how much the conversation about marriage has become focused on “safety for traditionalists.” I can only interpret that the safety of my family is irrelevant. In truth, I would like to stop talking about marriage, but I can’t because I am a mother. A mother who would go to the moon and back for her child.
Most days being an ordained priest brings me deep and abiding joy, and I am so blessed to be at St. George. But some days I really wish God would let me leave this vocation and lead me to somewhere where I can do good for the world without feeling like I have to protect my child from this institution to which I’ve made a life-long vow.
I am resigned to our fate. Even if the resolution passes the second reading, those with the power to do so have decided that the Anglican Church of Canada is called to continue to institutionally endorse that it is acceptable to practice and preach that God only approves of marriages between “a man” and “a woman.” Given the incredibly high suicide rates among those youth who do not have accepting homes and communities, I will pray that the LGBTQ2+ children who grow up in these churches will not succumb to despair before finding the support they need to heal from the trauma of all the harmful homophobia that is embedded therein.
If the proposed “Amendment to the Amendment” passes, I ask our Synod delegates to please bring a resolution that requires every church to state explicitly and clearly whether it is affirming of LGBTQ2+ people, including making available to them the sacrament of marriage. Theological ambiguity is dangerous for us – not just uncomfortable, but dangerous. Please put as much effort into ensuring our safety as has been put into ensuring the comfort of “traditionalists.” American activist Glennon Doyle writes that “fear is just love holding its breath.” I hope everyone at Synod takes a lot of deep breaths.
The Rev. Elizabeth Welch is incumbent at St. George, Cadboro Bay.
What I find interesting about this article is mainly in the last paragraph. The “Amendment to the Amendment” mentioned in it is intended to pacify conservatives who hold to the traditional view of marriage or, as Fred Hiltz put it:
offer some protection to those whose views were not reflected in the outcome of the vote. Such an amendment would be worded, he said, to ensure that “people of a conservative view of marriage would feel absolutely free to continue to aspire to that view—teach it, uphold it and practice it.
This seems to upset Rev. Welch who is unhappy that orthodox parishes might choose to remain in the closet; they should be compelled to come out, otherwise we will have “dangerous” “theological ambiguity”. In other words, liberals will not be satisfied until everyone in the Anglican church agrees with same-sex marriages and all clergy are willing to perform them – while smiling; there must be uniformity of thought, action and theology. In Ecclesiastical Newspeak, this is known as “Diversity”.
It’s worth noting that the liberal juggernaut has been gradually whittling down the opposition for decades. First we had to accept homosexual clergy; then partnered homosexual clergy; then same-sex blessings; then same-sex marriage; now we must agree with same-sex marriage or be guilty of Thought Crime. What comes next? I shudder to think.
From here (page 3)
Pride Week at Christ Church Cathedral
The congregation of Christ Church Cathedral is once again looking forward to joining the week long celebrations of Montreal Pride Week in August from 8 to 18 August. This is significant for us both because we have a significant number of members who define themselves as LGBTQ+, but also because we believe that the Gospel commands us to witness to God’s love to all of God’s creation.Supporting Pride and allowing all our members to experience God’s unconditional love is a long standing tradition at Christ Church, and this has been symbolized by the presence of a pride flag at the back of the Cathedral. Times have moved on significantly since the beginning of the gay liberation movement in the 1960s, but we live in a world in turmoil where the rights that have been granted in the last decades could easily be withdrawn. It is therefore as urgent as ever for Christ Church to publicly celebrate the fact that God loves us all without distinction, and that we are not simply following what civil society is doing but instead responding to the call of the Gospel in our lives in doing so.
The annual pride service will take place on Sunday 11 August at 4 pm at the Cathedral, followed by ice creams on the cathedral forecourt. A group from the Cathedral will take part in the Pride parade on 18 August – you are welcome to join us. We will go there from our 10.30 Choral Eucharist. All welcome.
Once again we see the snide insinuation that Christians who are unwilling to celebrate homosexual activity don’t believe that “God loves us all without distinction”. Utter nonsense, of course he does; that doesn’t mean he approves of everything we do, or that he he willing to let us go through life unchanged.
Are any readers gullible enough to believe: “we are not simply following what civil society is doing” when the the Anglican church today does little else?
The article notes that “we have a significant number of members who define themselves as LGBTQ+”, an odd assertion since the Diocese of Montreal has shrunk so catastrophically in recent years that it doesn’t have a significant number of members of any description, although it does have a high percentage of homosexual clergy.
From here:
As the first openly ordained transgender deacon in the Anglican Diocese of Rupert’s Land, Theo Robinson feels called by God to help heal the rift between LGBTTQ*people and the church.
“I want to show people who are afraid to go to church (because of their sexuality) they are welcome,” said Robinson, 40.
“I want to help heal the wounds of those who have been rejected.”
Robinson, who works in spiritual care at Misericordia Place, was ordained May 1 to serve as a transitional deacon — someone on the path to priesthood.
Theo Robinson was born Theresa Jennifer Robinson but now describes herself as a man in spite of the fact that she possesses no Y chromosome.
I don’t doubt her sincerity or wish her anything but God’s blessings. Nevertheless, I find myself wondering why an Anglican Diocese whose task it is to encourage parishioners to find their true identities in Christ, should choose someone so confused about her own identity to help them do it.
