Bonnie Crawford-Bewley points to a photo pinned to a tack board to help explain why she cares deeply about a vote by the Anglican Church of Canada this weekend on blessing gay unions.
Both Crawford-Bewley and her wife Michelle are beaming in the family snapshot, taken after their daughter Tiana, 8, was baptized by Crawford-Bewley’s father, a retired Anglican priest.
The couple had their relationship blessed in a non-Anglican church 17 years ago, but Crawford-Bewley said she is still bothered that her beloved Anglican Church is torn over whether to bless same-sex unions.
“Marriage is an important institution, and the church not being willing to bless our union and not being willing to marry us is very much making us second-class citizens,” said Crawford-Bewley, 45.
“It’s that constantly being told ‘You’re not good enough’ that needs to stop,” she said in an interview on the sidelines of the Canadian church’s general synod, its highest decision-making body.
“Marriage is an important institution, and the church not being willing to bless our union and not being willing to marry us is very much making us second-class citizens,” and so I would like to destroy that institution by pushing through homosexual marriage. I really don’t care about the consequences. It’s all about me, don’t ya know. And isn’t it wonderful that there are people so gullible as to go along with my plan. I am glad they ignore the obvious consequences of this (if they would only look across the ocean and see northern European countries where church attendance is dropping below 5% on any given Sunday.) Such naive arguments are so destructive.
I am behind in my reading and am sure that this has been addressed somewhere: What is the expected outcome? For? Against? Too close to call?
” I gotta be me” is the mantra of at least a couple of generations. If a few asked if “me” is someone worth being, they might not be happy with the answer, and then some healing could begin.
“she is still bothered that her beloved Anglican Church is torn over whether to bless same-sex unions.” We will destroy it because we love it so much. Sort of like an abusive spouse!!
“Being told, ‘You’re not good enough.'” The lady has it wrong. The Church is telling her that God thinks enough of her that she needs to repent, as do all other folk, in order to receive God’s blessings.
The Church is telling her that God thinks enough of her that she needs to repent, as do all other folk, in order to receive God’s blessings.
Sadly, that is not the case. All heterosexuals can get married – even if they have had multiple pre-marital encounters, divorces, etc.
The world is broken, Brian. Living with devoted friendship is a blessing. Living with a contradiction acted upon – unnatural sexual acts – and claiming it is necessary to friendship is not. It can’t be blessed.
Brian, I recieved the faith handed down, never in two thousand years has Christendom blessed same sex relationships. The Unitarians, Metropolitian Church, and there may be some others that will marry, bless, join or what ever SS couples. Go to Mass. or were ever SS marriage, blessings, joinings or what ever you want to call are legal and be happy, join a religion that welcomes GLT style of life but stop destroying the Anglican communion .
Not being willing to change the definition of marriage from a heterosexual procreative child rearing institution to an institution defined by erotic desire is very much making us second class citizens.
Not really.
Your demand to change the definition of marriage from a heterosexual procreative child rearing institution to an institution defined by erotic desire is very much making children second class citizens.
“It’s that constantly being told ‘You’re not good enough’ that needs to stop,”
None of us are good enough. It is only by the grace of Christ that we are able to do be called good. This grace is what allows me to respond to Him and offer my talents for His service and glory.
What dangerous pride it is to claim to be good by my own merit. What idols I build to this pride. What innocents I sacrifice to this idol. I pray I do not forget the title good belongs to God alone.