{"id":83019,"date":"2019-06-24T17:25:48","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T21:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=83019"},"modified":"2019-06-24T19:28:32","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T23:28:32","slug":"david-ould-grafton-synod-indicates-rejection-of-both-national-constitution-and-bishops-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=83019","title":{"rendered":"(David Ould) Grafton Synod Indicates Rejection of Both National Constitution and Bishops\u2019 Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we <a href=\"http:\/\/davidould.net\/grafton-synod-to-debate-provision-of-same-sex-marriage-liturgy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"reported last week (opens in a new tab)\">reported last week<\/a>, the Synod debated asking the General Synod to introduce same-sex marriage and blessing liturgies. That motion, as expected, was passed along with a number of related matters. What surprised some delegates at Synod was that the following motion was comprehensively defeated:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p><strong>27. Standard of Worship and Doctrine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That this Synod affirms the authorised standard of worship and doctrine of the Anglican Church of Australia as set out in the Fundamental Declarations and Ruling Principles of the Constitution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The motion was defeated in a vote by houses with approximately 2\/3 of the delegates voting against. This represents a rejection of the fundamental position of the Anglican Church of Australia with respect to doctrine and worship. The synod of Grafton has essentially said \u201cwe\u2019ll decide for ourselves what our doctrine and liturgy is\u201d. Those speaking against the motion included the Dean, Greg Jenks.<\/p>\n<p>One member of synod observed to davidould.net that,<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Numerous people at lunch time were joking that they are no longer Anglicans and so they can do as they please.  There was an air of triumphalism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidould.net\/grafton-synod-indicates-rejection-of-both-national-constitution-and-bishops-agreement\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Grafton Synod Indicates Rejection of Both National Constitution and Bishops\u2019&nbsp;Agreement <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JpsVVr1gh9\">https:\/\/t.co\/JpsVVr1gh9<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PPoulf3gKk\">pic.twitter.com\/PPoulf3gKk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Ould \u0646 (@davidould) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidould\/status\/1143050231749238785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 24, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we reported last week, the Synod debated asking the General Synod to introduce same-sex marriage and blessing liturgies. That motion, as expected, was passed along with a number of related matters. What surprised some delegates at Synod was that<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=83019\">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":[395,175,168,177,79,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-australia","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-pastoral-theology","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83019","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=83019"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83023,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83019\/revisions\/83023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}