THE SCOTTISH EPISCOPAL CHURCH HAS OPTED TO DELETE ITS DEFINITION OF MARRIAGE AS BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN FROM ITS CANONS<\/p>\n
[Twitter<\/a> and Livestream here when in session<\/a>]<\/p>\n Judah\u2019s leaders are like those However, this gracious compromise was roundly rejected by around two thirds of the Synod.<\/p>\n I don’t know that people understood just how costly this amendment would have been if it had been accepted.. Update<\/b> latest from GadgetVicar on Twitter<\/a> and SEC<\/a>:<\/p>\n General Synod 2015: Motion passed to proceed to debate the options for canonical change in relation to Marriage. Vote was 92 for, 35 against<\/p>\n Synod now discussing the options for change to Canon 31 relating to Marriage. Motion passed to proceed to vote on its preferred options. voting on Motion 20B to include a conscience clause in the options before Synod.<\/p>\n Synod Members now voting on options for change to Canon 31 relating to Marriage.<\/p>\n Motion passed to include a conscience clause in the option before Synod.<\/p>\n Option A has been passed by Synod. [Votes: Option A 88 out of 125 voting including 6 abstentions]<\/p>\n [Option A: Removal of section 1 of Canon 31 The SEC\u2019s official teaching on marriage is enshrined in Canon 31:1. Motion 23 instructing Canonical Committee to prepare the necessary canonical changes to effect this deletion passed on ballot 110 to 9<\/p>\n Motion 24 on religious registration of civil partnerships in church failed 30 to 82<\/p>\n Further Update<\/b>: Report on SEC vote to leave the Anglican Faith<\/a><\/p>\n
\n who move boundary stones.
\nI will pour out my wrath on them
\n like a flood of water. Hosea 5:10
To some people’s surprise, an amendment was put that would have allowed people who wanted to marry two people of the same sex to do so, but we’d keep the doctrine of marriage as being between a man and a woman. This would have put us in a similar situation to that of the Church of Scotland.<\/p>\n
Read it all<\/a> and for background read here<\/a>
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\nThis option would remove section 1 from Canon 31 in its entirety so that the Canon was silent on the question of a doctrine of marriage. Page 46<\/a><\/p>\n
\n\u201d\u02dcThe Doctrine of the Church is that Marriage is a physical, spiritual and mystical
\nunion of one man and one woman created by their mutual consent of heart,
\nmind and will thereto, and is a holy and lifelong estate instituted of God.\u2019 – page 50 of above link]<\/p>\n