The more than 300 delegates to this week’s Anglican General Synod will be deciding whether to follow the lead of Vancouver-area Bishop Michael Ingham, who drew both global praise and censure in 2002 when he first blessed same-sex couples.
With outspoken African Anglican leaders threatening to try to shove the Canadian denomination out of the 77-million-member global Anglican communion, the decisions Canada’s Anglicans make this week are being closely watched.
At a Fraser Valley meeting this month, Ingham told Anglicans he disagreed with the Canadian House of Bishops’ “surprising” vote in May to recommend a further delay, for three years, of a decision over whether to allow same-sex blessings to be approved by local dioceses.
However, the bishops did recommend Anglican priests offer communion to homosexual couples who had undergone civil unions.
Whatever the case, the bishops’ vote is not ultimately binding on delegates to the denomination’s once-every-three-years synod, a governing body with more authority than the bishops alone.
On Wednesday, both Ingham and Stephen Schuh, a gay Anglican from Vancouver, put forward a motion calling on the synod to affirm that it will still be acceptable for him to continue to sanction same-sex blessings in his diocese — no matter what delegates decide this week, probably on Saturday, to do nationally.
I just read the following story:
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/story.html?id=48cb9990-b125-4e78-98c9-bd409f915e0a&k=53248
Note the following:
Of course, this is Kenneth Kearon talking, but if this is true, then it cause for serious concern and will probably mean the breakup of the Communion.
If Kearon really said that, then it’s bribery. He’s trying to bribe them to vote in his favor. May God rebuke him!!!!