Most of the world’s Anglican churches have openly opposed sanctifying same-sex marriages, arguing that such blessings defy scripture.
“If we go through with this, we’re going to be tearing the fabric of the Anglican community worldwide at its deepest level,” Calgary-based delegate Sheila Vanderputten told CBC News.
“The primates have really been strong in telling us that we may have to choose to walk apart if we go against our 2000 years plus of history of Christianity according to scripture.”
On Saturday, delegates will vote on a “local parish” option. If it passes, Anglican priests would be allowed to choose whether their individual parish will bless a same-sex couple.
Isn’t that just congregationalism? And, wouldn’t that make them less Anglican in that way, regardless of what their Bishop let’s them do, no matter how approved by some “Anglican” body?
More arbitrary stupidity from the reappraisers…
Yes, it is congregationalism…..and Political Correctness run amuck. It shows a complete lack of leadership and statesmanship. It is a denial and abdication of confessional faith AND of the namesake of this blog: —Titus 1:9 “He must hold firm to the sure Word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to confute those who contradict it.”
Where do they get this stuff? How in Creation can you relate Jesus opening the Kingdom to those beyond the Jewish state to the approval of Scripturally sinful behavior? How many Jewish Laws did Jesus encourage the disciples to break, exactly? Other than to prove a point about Sabbatical Hypocracy, I can’t think of a single one. And let’s face it, we’re not talking about some Church tradition made up 500 years later and codified to deal with a Post-Constantine problem, we’re talking about a clearly prohibited behavior in both the Old and New Testaments. This malarkey about Jesus supporting some kind of breakthrough to prohibited behavior is nonsensical.
It sure is a long way to get to validate yourself. Or get your way. Or avoid speaking the truth to someone in love.
KTF…mrb