Bishop Andrew Asbil has sent a Letter to the Diocese expressing his dismay at the absence of a Toronto Pride Parade this year. No bright costumes! No joyful music! No naked men without bright costumes! How will Anglicans cope with this severe deprivation?
Consolation can be found in the new Marriage Policy which promises to marry anyone to anyone no matter what your self-identified gender, choice of pronouns or chromosome arrangement.
From here:
Dear Friends in Christ,
At the beginning of each summer, millions of people gather on the streets of Toronto and other cities and towns across our great Diocese to celebrate Pride. With bright costumes, joyful music and lots of glitter, members of the LGBTQ2S+ community and their allies celebrate the beautiful diversity of God’s creation. For many years, Proud Anglicans have been an important part of this celebration.
Unfortunately, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, most of the public Pride celebrations have been cancelled or moved online this year. This is a tremendous source of grief for members of the LGBTQ2S+ community, who look forward to being together for mutual support and solidarity. This year is particularly difficult for young people who are isolated at home and also in the closet. We must be vigilant in creating safe spaces for them wherever possible.
With the support of the College of Bishops, I have recently issued a new Marriage Policy for the Diocese of Toronto. In the life of our Church, we are now celebrating the marriage of two people, regardless of gender. In the same spirit of diversity, the College of Bishops wishes a very Happy Pride to all Anglicans across our Diocese who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans, two-spirited, queer and questioning, and also to their families and allies. We stand with you.
Every pandemic has a silver lining …
The “grief”, as set out in I Corinthians 5:5 “to deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the Day of The LORD Jesus”, from which to flee at all costs was Preached,Sunday, June 14, 2020, at ‘Leading The Way’, by former Episcopal Church USA Priest, The Reverend Dr. Michael Youssef, who continues to warn America that there will be “no Revival until there is Repentance” – “Biblical, by His Holy Spirit”, especially for the sins of ‘porneia’ which now freely are practised “in the Church”; “the Church leadership”‘s being most chargeable of all.
The Monday, June 15, 2020 SCOTUS Decision 6-3 re. sexual identity has bowed the knee to Baal. Persecution of Biblical Believers now will follow.
Thank You, Abigail, for your usual sound biblical reasoning and philology.
Our shared thanks is unto HIM Who, as dear William Cowper versified, in the soundest Reformed doctrine of the Infallibility of Sola Holy Writ as His Own Interpreter, “and He will make it plain”:
The irreparable harm to The American Republic, founded upon Judaeo-Christian principles, now is that by reinterpreting in contravention of the Originalist intent of The Constitution -actually, Activist Judicially ‘Legislating’- the 1964 Civil Rights Act to accommodate the mind, ‘I think, therefore I can be whatever I think to be’, one’s biological sex now rendered immaterial, the Globalist Cultural Marxist ideology has imposed upon the minds of the Biblical faithful in their Churches the minds of the anti-Biblical unfaithful also in their falling and fallen Churches:and, therefore, at its most apostate, upon Jesus Christ Who has affirmed of His True Church,
I Corinthians 2:16b “But we have The Mind of Christ”,
“Let This Mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus”
+ Philippians 2:5.