{"id":83717,"date":"2019-07-13T18:26:43","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T22:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=83717"},"modified":"2019-07-13T18:28:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T22:28:22","slug":"aj-traditional-definition-of-marriage-stays-after-a-canon-amendment-to-allow-for-same-sex-marriage-narrowly-fails-to-pass-at-anglican-church-of-canada-general-synod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=83717","title":{"rendered":"(AJ) Traditional definition of marriage stays after a canon amendment to allow for same-sex marriage narrowly fails to pass at Anglican Church of Canada General Synod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Anglican Church of Canada will maintain its traditional definition of marriage after a vote to amend the marriage canon failed to pass at General Synod 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The 42nd General Synod voted against Resolution A052-R2, which would have amended the marriage canon to allow for same-sex marriage, after the resolution failed to pass by a two-thirds majority in all three orders. While two-thirds of the Order of Laity (80.9%) and Order of Clergy (73.2%) voted in favour, less than the required two-thirds (62.2%) voted in favour of the resolution in the Order of Bishops.<\/p>\n<p>The final results of the vote, which took place on the evening of July 12 at the Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre, were as follows: The Order of Laity saw 89 members (80.9%) vote Yes and 21 members (19.1%) vote No, with one abstention. The Order of Clergy had 60 members (73.2%) voting Yes, 22 members (26.8%) voting No, and two abstentions. In the Order of Bishops, 23 members (62.2%) voted Yes and 14 members (37.8%) voted No, with two abstentions.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement of the result left many synod members visibly in shock. A scream could be heard. Many members began crying, and one young delegate ran out of the room in tears.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicanjournal.com\/marriage-canon-amendment-fails-to-pass\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Vote to approve same-sex marriage fails in Anglican Church of Canada:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aa3BA5joMz\">https:\/\/t.co\/aa3BA5joMz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mathew Adam Block (@mathewablock) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mathewablock\/status\/1150152893422551040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 13, 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>The Anglican Church of Canada will maintain its traditional definition of marriage after a vote to amend the marriage canon failed to pass at General Synod 2019. The 42nd General Synod voted against Resolution A052-R2, which would have amended the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=83717\">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":[388,168,98,177,112,79,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-pastoral-theology","category-sexuality","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83717","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=83717"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83720,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83717\/revisions\/83720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}