The head of Canada’s Anglican Church appealed Friday to hundreds of bishops, priests and laypeople that they not let talks on the thorny issue of same-sex unions further divide the church or take on the rancour of the past.
Rev. Fred Hiltz said at the opening of the General Synod that there are still varying opinions in the church about homosexuality, but that a new, more conciliatory approach might dull the passions around it.
“My hope clearly is that we will be able to continue this conversation, live with some difference and to do it with a degree of grace,” he said at the triennial gathering in Halifax.
They’ll find a consensus when the ACoC has driven off all of the orthodox.
Finding concensus on this subject will be akin to agreeing on just how much fecal matter added to ice cream allows it still to be acceptable to serve to honored guests as dessert.
Translation: Accept what we are doing, shut up and keep the checks coming.
[blockquote]He [Chaplin]would like to see the Synod endorse an individual diocese’s right to decide whether to establish blessings for same-sex couples, whereas conservative groups would like to see that denounced.[/blockquote] An inch at a time.
Dulling the passions might just be the answer to homosexuality.
Here’s the solution: let’s continue the conversation. After all, we’re a really big tent. Dabadabadoo!
Frankly there are remarks here that are disgusting. One wonders first of all why they are allowed and secondly what kind of obsession prompts such a remark.
#7. deaconmark,
I hope you were not referring to my remark. “An Inch at a time” is the name of Susan Russell’s blog site. she and Chaplin both belong to integrity.
Conciliation (noun, occasionally forced to act as a verb) – the process whereby one acts like EcUSA/TEc to force acceptance of non-Biblical acts upon the members of the organization under inspection and make all who disagree on the basis of history, Tradition, and the Church Catholic toe the line by lawsuits and other beneficient “Christian” behaviours designed to stifle dissent and present a facade of conversation whilst destroying the Faith and the faith of members to accomodate culture as the ultimate arbiter of “truthiness”. See also inadaba, reconciliation, new sherriff in town, delphi technique, and double-tongued, two-faced, prevaricating, and accessories to and after “facts on the ground”.
Who knows to what remarks Deaconmark is referring — they all are quite apropos other than the odd remark from Deaconmark.
….# 7 deaconmark…”what kind of obsession prompts such a remark?…”
I can tell you.
It’s an obsession with the truth.