{"id":601,"date":"2007-06-24T04:33:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-24T04:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_saturday_night_thought_while_watching_the_anglican_church_of_canada_synod\/"},"modified":"2007-06-24T04:33:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-24T04:33:00","slug":"a_saturday_night_thought_while_watching_the_anglican_church_of_canada_synod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=601","title":{"rendered":"A Saturday Night Thought While Watching the Anglican Church of Canada Synod Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Sure, I would like there to have been more theologically informed remarks from several of the speakers.<\/p>\n<p>But as a whole I felt the tone was respectful and I give the Canadians high marks for recognizing this is a matter of doctrine.  From where I sit I would have liked that to have been followed by the canonical and constitutional stipulation that it require a 2\/3 vote over two successive synods, but at least they are calling for a 60% vote <b>in each order<\/b>. They are taking it more seriously than TEC did, and they are treating it more as a theological than as a personal matter than we did.  Good for them.<\/p>\n<p>If the Episcopal Church had had the courage of its convictions in 2003 to have the same voting requirement currently being proposed in Canada, the approval for the election in New Hampshire would have failed in the House of Bishops among those bishops with jurisdiction who had a vote.  Hmmmmm&#8230;..KSH.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, I would like there to have been more theologically informed remarks from several of the speakers. But as a whole I felt the tone was respectful and I give the Canadians high marks for recognizing this is a matter<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=601\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,41,388,74,633,66,514,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-by-kendall","category-anglican-church-of-canada","category-anglican-provinces","category-canadian-general-synod-2007","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}