WALKING TOGETHER … TO THE CITY OF DESTRUCTION: A Word from the Bishop Smooth-It-Away’s of the Anglican Church of Canada

Jul 24, 2019 by Jill

By Stephen Noll, Contending Anglican:

We see your tears, we hear your cries, and we weep with you. We have caused deep hurt. We are profoundly sorry.

So say the bishops of the Anglican Church of Canada in a deep, deep grovel. The “your” refers to those LGBT constituents to whom the bishops had promised “marriage equality.”

The heartbreak resulted from the failure of the General Synod to neuter its canon with respect to marriage of a man and a woman. Indeed, it was the bishops themselves that could not muster the two-thirds vote to overturn the Church’s deeply unjust canon on marriage – and yes of course, the deeply unjust teaching of 526 bishops of the 1998 Lambeth Conference – oh, and also of the deeply unjust teaching of the Book of Common Prayer, the Bible, the Creator of the Universe (Genesis 1:27 and 2:24) and the Lord Jesus Christ (Matthew 19:4-6).

They came close to righting this wrong and no doubt will reach their destination next time.

But many stalwart Mounties are not willing to wait till next time. In fact, they have not even waited until now, as “local” dioceses already have stamped their blessing on same-sex weddings. The bishops assure us that these trail-breakers are not violating God’s the church’s law:

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