Three Anglican congregations that split from the Vancouver-area diocese over its support for same-sex blessings have gone to court to avoid being kicked out of their churches.
The three congregations – St. John’s Shaughnessy in Vancouver, St. Matthias/St. Luke in Vancouver and St. Matthew’s in Abbotsford – argue in court documents that they should be allowed to remain because their opposition to same-sex blessings is consistent with “historic, orthodox Anglican doctrine.”
However, the Diocese of New Westminster and its bishop, Michael Ingham, argue that church doctrine evolves and there is no legal basis for congregations that leave the diocese to take church property with them.
Not exactly a model to the world as a way for Christians to treat one another!
c.phillbin, you are perhaps assuming that the aggressor in this case, +Michael Ingham, is a Christian. That’s quite a stretch for one who said words to the effect that the next big challenge for the church is to purge the idea that Jesus Christ is the exclusive way of salvation and who subtly or blatantly denies any of the miracles associated with Jesus, including the Virgin Birth and the Ascension. Don’t sheep have the right to defend themselves when attacked by wolves?