Comments on: Marriage canon resolution may be amended with protections for traditionalists, bishops say

By: Dale Sparkes

Dale Sparkes — Sat, 05 May 2018 02:58:14 +0000

In reply to Gail Lefèvre. Thanks Gail

By: Tony Houghton

Tony Houghton — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 13:53:46 +0000

In reply to Gail Lefèvre. So Gods standards are promoting bigotry ? You seem to have a problem with Gods standards which reflect God nature and character.

By: Gail Lefèvre

Gail Lefèvre — Sat, 28 Apr 2018 01:49:20 +0000

In reply to Tony Houghton. All I know is that it serves no-one to use the scriptures to justify bigotry.

By: Tony Houghton

Tony Houghton — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 19:56:07 +0000

In reply to Gail Lefevre.

Jesus believed and followed the law given by the Godhead ,which included Him.Gods standards are not our standards and we are to follow the standards set by God. “Be ye not conformed to this world but transformed by the renewing of you mind….”,” And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. ” What changed in the character of God(if God could change) where he would go from calling something an abomination to something He would bless? We serve a God that does not change and neither do His standards. I guess it all boils down to ,who are you going to serve ,God or Man?

By: Gail Lefevre

Gail Lefevre — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 19:23:51 +0000

In reply to Neale Adams. Thank you Neale, for one of the few moderate answers I've read about this issue. Personally, I fail to see how modernizing our definition of marriage to include people who have been marginalized and oppressed poses any threat to the sanctity of marriage between a man and a woman. Would Jesus, himself a reformer, want his church to remain over 2000 years in the past? By all means create an atmosphere of respect for traditional viewpoints and convictions, but not through promoting baseless fears about traditional marriage being threatened. Furthermore, I am personally saddened and disgusted that anyone would call the committed love between same-sex couples "abhorrent," as I read in one of the above comments. Hatred and bigotry are abhorrent. Human love needs to be nurtured in all its forms.

By: Tony Houghton

Tony Houghton — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 01:22:08 +0000

In reply to Sarah Hoblyn. The church blesses a lot of thing ,it does not always mean that they are correct.What has changed in the character of God from the Old Testament to the New Testament that he would change from calling something abhorrent to something that is worth celebrating ?

By: Tony Houghton

Tony Houghton — Wed, 25 Apr 2018 05:17:45 +0000

In reply to Colin Hendry. Maybe it is not the blue haired ladies and men that you are angry at but the standards that God has established . People don't like being told what to do or not do but as Jesus said if you love me you will keep them for they reflect the nature of God Himself. There can be no compromise on Gods standards, He is holy and that is not up for discussion, that is what the church has to grapple with , choose this day who you will serve.

By: Neale Adams

Neale Adams — Sat, 21 Apr 2018 04:12:20 +0000

While I agree that our deliberations should be always courteous and prayerful, we are a church guided by our constitution and canon laws, and ultimately the majority (a significant majority over several General Synods) decides. Trying to accommodate a minority can extend division for a very long time, although it seems charitable and less devisive in the short term. I think of the Church of England’s continuing controversies which came out of the “flying bishops” exercise. As always, the bishops as a group are too timid. Either the Anglican Church of Canada as a whole accepts the marriage of same sex couples, or it doesn’t. A conscious clause provision to accommodate *individual* priests is one thing; however to allow entire dioceses to opt out I fear will extend division, not lead to the healing of it.

By: Colin Hendry

Colin Hendry — Fri, 20 Apr 2018 22:27:10 +0000

The Anglican Church has destroyed itself from within. It is sad. I have been an Anglican ever since my Grandparents took me to church at St. Johns in the Wilderness, Brights Grove, Ontario–I was less than 5 years old. I had to promise to behave so I would not have to go to anther room with the other kids. Seventy-six now and I have lost confidence in the Anglican Church. Tired of the holier than you attitudes, lost patience with the “Blue-haired Ladies who ruled the church; and shocked at the sense to growing exclusivity. Now, one of the basic beliefs in the sanctity of marriage between a woman and a man is not only greatly diminished; it is on its way to the recycling bin with the rest of the garbage.
A couple months ago, I started attending a Lutheran Church. The people are welcoming and friendly, not anything like Anglicans.

By: Sarah Hoblyn

Sarah Hoblyn — Fri, 20 Apr 2018 22:24:26 +0000

I do not understand why same-sex marriages cannot be legalised as a secular union and then, if they wish, be blessed in Church? All manner of things are blessed, houses, places, animals etc. why not two people? Sarah Hoblyn.