#GS2016: voting error reveals that the General Secretary's vote was not counted as clergy. There was, in fact, a 2/3 clergy majority.
— Anglican Church””ACC (@generalsynod) July 12, 2016
Anglican Church of Canada PASSES amended same-sex Marriage Motion after corrected Miscount
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What a huge turn of events. Every vote matters.
Well, at least everyone will know how the General Secretary voted, eh? Perhaps lionization for future generations will be in order, if there are any future generations.
Glad that’s over, actually. With the way it was going, SSM was defeated, but the primate and majority of bishops were going to openly defy their own canons- while at the same time proclaiming to the Anglican Communion that nothing had changed.
Granted, there will have to be a second reading, but based on the statements of the various bishops, gay marriage is the law in the vast majority of parishes, because it was the bishops of the large who have abandoned the communion of the Church.
Now the GS and other faithful followers of Christ within the Communion have a stark reality before them, and Mr Hiltz no longer has the veil of his canons to hide behind. By this act, the ACoC has broken communion with the majority of the Anglican Communion, and violated the Primates’ Agreement.
Wonder if the propaganda arm at Lambeth palace got the word before they hit the hay? Would be terribly embarrassing if tomorrow morning someone issued the press release they spent all day writing, about the rejection of gay marriage by the Canadians.
oops, should read “bishops of the large dioceses…” in the second section above.
I should have checked my email before assuming that the propaganda dept had not already sent out an announcement
http://www.anglicannews.org/news/2016/07/canadian-anglicans-reject-same-sex-marriage-by-one-vote.aspx
So it will be interesting to see if ACNS prints a correction tomorrow, or if they just leave up the incorrect story, hoping the GS doesn’t get word…
What are faithful Anglicans in Canada going to do now?
Sadly, this take me back to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s 2009 Churchwide Assembly, where the unfortunate social statement [i]Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust[/i] received the exact 2/3rds vote needed for passage. Indeed, every vote matters.
[blockquote] What are faithful Anglicans in Canada going to do now? [/blockquote]
The ACNA was founded by Americans and Canadians together back in 2009, so many (most?) won’t be directly affected by the decision. For those who remained in the old structure… I guess they have some decisions to make.