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Church of England vicar wants to marry his male partner

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From here:

Cain-ForeshewA gay vicar from Kilburn has vowed to marry his partner of 14 years despite the risk that he could be thrown out of the Church of England.

Fr Andrew Cain from St Mary’s with All Souls, revealed his engagement to fiancé Stephen Foreshew, an atheist, on Valentine’s Day.

He stated firmly that he planned to ignore edicts sent down from his own church leaders that described marriage as only a “lifelong union between one man and one woman”.

I have a suggestion for Messrs. Cain and Foreshew: move to Canada. Since the Anglican Church of Canada worships the triune god of Inclusion, Diversity and Homo-erotic sex, along with assorted demigods  – eco-justice, utopianism and smudging among others – you will be welcomed with open arms. The additional benefit of your wife-husband being an atheist would make you a shoe-in. I’d start with an application to the Diocese of Montreal, if I were you.

Diocese of Montreal ordains two men, both married to other men

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Rev. Robert Camara and Donald Boisvert were ordained by Bishop Barry Clarke in June, Camara as a priest and Boisvert as a deacon; both Camara and Boisvert  are married – to men.

Anyone still labouring under the misapprehension that the Anglican Church of Canada is not being consumed by an obsession with homoerotic sex, need look no further for illumination than to the preoccupations of those whom it is ordaining. Here is an extract from “Holy Sex” by Deacon Boisvert:

Anyone who has ever publicly cruised other men, or participated in some of the more arcane rituals associated with S/M sex, for example, will understand the powerful, almost overwhelming pull of the masculine and the unspoken codes with which we surround and protect it. Masculinity represents many things for gay men: potency, dominion, authority, abandonment, protection. As the dominant masculine symbol, the phallus acquires many characteristics of the holy. This is not a particularly modern interpretation. Phallic worship is as old as human civilization, and perhaps as controversial today as it was in the past. It has always been transgressive, associated with disorder and excess, with rioutous freedom and wanton sex. …. I call gay sex “holy sex” because it is centred on one of the primal symbols of the natural world, that of male regenerative power. The rites of gay sex call forth and celebrate this power, particularly in its unknown and unknowable anonymity. Gay men are the worshippers paying homage to the god who stands erect and omnific, ever silent and distant.

Just what the doctor ordered for ailing Canadian Anglicanism: phallic worship.

Here, in his book “Sacred Space”, Boisvert describes his life’s most “spiritual moments” in – where else – gay bars and bath-houses:

Because I am a gay man, my first time in a gay bar, my first visit to the baths, and most poignantly, the first time I stepped into the Stonewall Inn in New York City have also been uplifting, spiritual moments in my life.

I am looking forward to the gradual transformation of Christ Church Cathedral into a “Sacred Space”; my bet is that it will be a gay bathhouse – once the baptismal font has been enlarged.

Boisvert used to be a Roman Catholic, an affiliation that proved unsympathetic to his yearning to worship penises. Unsurprisingly, he has received a warm welcome in the Anglican Church of Canada as it sinks inexorably into Boisvert’s murky world of cruising other men looking for a spot of “Holy Sex”.

From here (page 4):

To say that Donald Boisvert has come out as a gay man would be an understatement. You could almost say he wrote the book (or books).
His ordination as an Anglican deacon by Bishop Barry Clarke June 3 is another event in his distinguished and public career as a scholar and activist concerned particularly with sexuality and the relation between sexuality and religion.
In a note for The Montreal Anglican in 2009, on the occasion of his being received into the Anglican Church by Bishop Barry Clarke, he wrote:
“I was raised a Roman Catholic; I studied for the Catholic priesthood; and I am a scholar of Catholic religious culture. I have a great deal of affection for the Catholic Church, in large part because it marks my cultural heritage and it guided me through my youth, but also because it still has a great deal to offer. But I am gay, and I have more and more difficulty with the Vatican’s archaic teachings on human sexuality, including its position on women and their place within Catholicism.
More broadly, however, the Catholic Church remains a deeply entrenched patriarchal institution, with an authoritarian and rigid governing structure.

It is difficult to refrain from speculating on why Bishop Barry Clarke would ordain someone whose chief interests lie in the exploration of the ritualistic aspects of sadomasochism and the holiness of male genitals. Is the bishop a witless lunatic, a closet adorer of phalluses, a neophyte practitioner of wanton sex looking for instruction?

Who can say – perhaps he just picked up Boisvert in a bathhouse.

Note: I’ve updated this article since Robert Camara and Donald Boisvert, while married to other men, are not married to each other as I had previously stated.

Former Anglican priest charged with molesting boys

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From here:

The Ontario Provincial Police in northwestern Ontario have laid more charges against a former Anglican priest and boy scout leader for alleged sexual offences.

Ralph Rowe, 72, will appear in court in Kenora, Ont., later this month. He’s charged with five counts of sexual assault and two counts of indecent assault.

The charges relate to incidents that occurred between 1973 and 1986 in the First Nations communities of Fort Severn, Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug, Wunnumin Lake and Kingfisher Lake.

The fact that this character was an Anglican priest is appalling – but not surprising.

John Bothwell, when he was bishop of Niagara, as part of the ACPO initiation – more of a hazing, really – used to show gay pornographic movies to the postulants to introduce them to the real world as he saw it. I reckon they were from his own private collection; my wife tells me I shouldn’t say that. Too late.

Those who were not shocked into throwing in the towel and finding employment in a sane institution were subsequently consecrated as priests.

So it is not surprising that an organisation that uses a process designed to screen out those averse to homosexual practice attracts many who enjoy indulging in homosexual practice.  Including with little boys.

Rev. James Ferry and Archbishop Terence Finlay kiss and make up

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20 years ago Terence Finlay fired James Ferry because he had a homosexual lover. Now, they have reconciled – more because of a change of heart on the part of the archbishop than the priest, it seems.

All this goes to show how much has changed in the Anglican Church of Canada: today homosexual  priests are not only welcome, but they often seem to be preferred candidates for vacant positions. I am sure the ACoC views this as a necessary corrective: in actual fact it is more an act of obeisance to the Zeitgeist.

From here:

The two Toronto clergymen are by now so inextricably linked that they’re bound to appear prominently in each other’s obituaries. They know that.

But Terence Finlay and James Ferry do not want a confrontation 20 years ago — one that scandalized the traditional and appalled the progressive in the Anglican Church — to define them.

As of next Sunday, when they participate in a rare public service of personal reconciliation at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Finlay and Ferry hope the relationship will be known for more redeeming reasons.

 

The Anglican Church of Canada self-destructs over 0.1%

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According to Statistics Canada there are 45,345 same-sex couples in Canada and about 7,500 of them are married – 0.1% of all married couples. 37,900 are same-sex common-law couples.

Heretical ideas have been allowed to roam unchecked in the Anglican Church of Canada for decades, but it was the blessing of same-sex couples that was the last straw that finally drove many orthodox parishes to separate from their dioceses.

The Anglican Church of Canada likes to claim that this is a “justice” issue; but is it really – the church has torn itself apart for the sake of 0.1% of married couples?

I am convinced that the percentage of same-sex partnered priests in the ACoC is higher – far higher – than the national average. The real reason for the church’s obsession with blessing same-sex couples is self-interest on the part of homosexual Anglican priests: they refuse to mend their ways and they seek justification for not doing so.

Here is a graphic from the CBC:

 

 

 

Homosexual priests in long-term committed relationships

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Here are two who were “close friends” in the Roman Catholic Church. Their relationship was long term, but the commitment was sufficiently loose to allow them to haunt “places frequented by gays” where one of them acquired AIDS and syphilis.

The pair decided to jump off a cliff together but, lacking the nerve, decided, after planning a list of hymns for their funerals, to hire hit men to finish them off instead.

This amalgam of comic pantomime and maudlin tragedy is brought to you courtesy of a church – the Roman Catholic Church this time – which turns a blind – or winking – eye to what used to be called sin.

Two gay Roman Catholic priests hired hitmen to kill themselves after one of them discovered he had Aids.

Rafael Reatiga, 35, and Richard Piffano, 37, who had been close friends since training, were discovered shot dead in a car in Southern Bogota, Colombia, in January last year.

Authorities initially suspected robbery but this week prosecutor Ana Patricia Larrota said investigators had determined that it was a case of suicide by hitmen.

The Diocese of Montreal ordains another active homosexual

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From here (page 5):

Robert Ledo Camara and Rhonda Waters are the two newest clergy in the Diocese of Montreal but for all their relatively young years they also are old hands around the diocese.

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But he [Camara] and his partner, Gabriele Spina, still called Montreal home. The two men were married in 2005 in the Birks Chapel at McGill about a year after a decision, A decision of the Quebec Court of Appeals the previous year had legalized same-sex marriage in the province.

As the article points out, Robert Camara wasn’t ordained just because he is married to another man, but because he knows Portuguese: very useful in French speaking Montreal.

 

Vicar dons miniskirt and gold tights

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From here:

A vicar who outraged his parishioners when he dressed as a ‘tart’ for a fundraising costume party has retired from the Church.

The Reverend Martin Wray left his position at St Lawrence the Martyr Church in Horsley Hill, South Shields, after being on sick leave for several months following his part in the charity bash.

The 59-year-old was photographed at the  ‘vicars and tarts’ party wearing a mini-skirt, gold leggings and high heels at the town’s Steamboat pub on the Mill Dam in August last year.

What was meant to be a fun event though caused a stir at the church, with some of the congregation believing the published photograph of the vicar as a ‘tart’ brought his  parish into disrepute.

But friends of Mr Wray, who entered into a gay partnership last May and who continues to live in the town, said the whole episode had ‘a whiff of homophobia’ about it.

 

 

It brings home just how muddled the Church of England has become when a vicar has to don a miniskirt and gold tights in addition to having a homosexual lover before his parishioners suspect something untoward is going on.

New Dean and rector of Christ Church Cathedral, Montreal is “liberal in ethics”. Nudge, wink.

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What does being “liberal in ethics” while being supposedly evangelical and orthodox in other areas really mean in practice? Well, in this case it means that the new dean can live as an active homosexual, marry another man – that’s the “ethics” bit – and expect everyone to believe his claim to orthodoxy elsewhere.

The problem is that by adopting a code of sexual ethics – one that coincidentally benefits him – that runs counter to clear Biblical injunctions and 2000 years of Christian teaching, he invites scepticism about his real attachment to evangelical preaching, orthodox Trinitarian theology and fervent discipleship. When his alleged orthodoxy becomes less than entirely convenient what is to stop Father Kennington becoming as “liberal” in that – assuming he isn’t already – as he is in his tolerance for homoerotic liaisons?

From here (page 1):

The next Dean of the Diocese of Montreal and Rector of Christ Church Cathedral

Father Kennington, who was selected after a year-long search, succeeds Very Rev. Michael Pitts, who

retired last year after serving in the post since 1991 and who is also from Britain, although he was already serving in Montreal at the time of his appointment. Another point in common is that both men were in contact with Russia and Russian Orthodoxy in their early careers.

In a biographical note supplied to the cathedral, Father Kennington describes himself as “liberal in ethics, evangelical in preaching, catholic in liturgy and orthodox in his understanding of Trinitarian theology and Christology.” He “is passionate about mission and about helping people grow in faith to become fervent disciples of Christ so that the Christian Community can build God’s Dominion of love, justice and peace.”

Father Kennington also writes that he will enter into a civil partnership in May. His partner, Jonathan, will join him in Montreal shortly after that. Father Kennington has three adult children – a son and two daughters – from a previous marriage.

The article goes on to say:

Paul is highly qualified, is a man of faith, gives priority to pastoral matters, encourages lay ministries, understands the importance of liturgy and music in worship, is a wonderful preacher, lives a good Christian life, and is delightful to meet.

I’m sure he is a lovely bloke, but how did we get from the point where the qualifications for being a Deacon included “the husband of one wife” to “the ex-husband of one wife and now the husband of one man – but he lives a good Christian life; really, he does”. No wonder the Anglican Church of Canada is a laughing stock.

Some interesting numbers from the UK on the percentage of the population that is homosexual

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From here:

The first ever official count of the gay population has found that only one in 100 adults is homosexual.

The figure explodes the assumption  –  long promoted by social experts and lobbyists  –  that the number is up to ten times higher than this at one in ten.

The Office for National Statistics said 1.3 per cent of men are gay and 0.6 per cent of women are lesbian.

Another 0.5 per cent consider themselves bisexual, according to the figures gathered from questions put to nearly 250,000 – the biggest survey possible outside a full national census.

This means that, in total, around 1.5 per cent of the population is either homosexual or bisexual.

There isn’t much reason to suppose that the percentages would be substantially different in North America. I strongly suspect that the percentage of homosexual Anglican priests is much higher, though.

Other than the attraction of dressing up in robes, I can’t think of any convincing reason for this: it does help to explain the obsession that the Anglican church has for what it calls “the full inclusion of gays”. It has more to do with self-interest than anything else.