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/

I’ve always harboured the suspicion that the Anglican Church of Canada’s Justice Camps are actually places where conservative clergy who refuse to deny their faith are sent for re-education, rather like Mao’s RTL camps.

This year’s inmates are to be sequestered somewhere deep in the bowels of the Diocese of Huron to learn all about Respect:

Respect Justice Camp, 2019 thus seeks to bring together people of faith in an effort to further explore the ways in which we can respect God’s Beloved children, including God’s creation, so that we, in turn, seek to collaborate with these individuals in meaningful and progressive ways.

No one is suggesting respecting God’s Beloved children who haven’t yet made it out of the womb, of course, because that would not be meaningful and progressive. To make up for that, the organisers have found some more letters to respect on the end of LGBT:

Respect for and Collaboration with LGBTQ2ia+

I gather the “i” is for Intersex where a person has an indeterminate mix of primary and secondary sex characteristics. As you can imagine, the church is teeming with people in this category.

The “a” is for Asexual where a person experiences no or little sexual attraction to people. I understand many ACoC bishops have taken up this calling, leaving their wives and sleeping, instead, with inanimate objects. Like hairbrushes and tea strainers.

The fact that the “a”s and the “i”s have been reduced to insignificant lower case letters is a clear indication that, defying the best efforts of Justice Camp indoctrinators, prejudice still runs rampant in the Anglican commissariat.

The “+” is for anything yet to emerge from the sludge of the lurid fantasies that gurgle noxiously from the fevered sexual longings of our Canadian Anglican clerics.