Toronto's historic Church of the Holy Trinity says it will defy any attempt by the Anglican Church of Canada to stop the blessing of same sex unions, and may even start performing the wedding ceremonies themselves.
In a resolution released late Sunday, members of the activist downtown church voted to "continue to exercise its conscience and bless same-sex unions and marry same-sex couples."From the Toronto Star
On the eve of our General Synod some may wonder (on both "sides" of such an issue): why bother? Those who will, will, and those who won't, won't. Will update with an answer when I have one...
Update: Why bother?
Because it is the Body of Christ.
Collary question:
Why bother sending money to the Diocese? What have they ever done for us?
Posted by: Matt | June 19, 2007 at 04:57 PM
because they feel called by god, to give the sacremnts to all of her children.
Posted by: anthony | June 19, 2007 at 05:43 PM
Oops - corollary is what I meant to type. Nothing like trying to seem clever and falling flat on your face with spelling.
Anthony - You can chose to give anything in your control to anyone you wish. That is the free will you have as a child of Christ.
A parish that professes to be a member of a greater church does not have the same free will, even if they believe that the Spirit has led them there. Acts 15 displays the difficult but unified decision-making of the early church.
We display our obedience to God through obedience to the Body of Christ, the church. It does egregious harm to the Body of Christ to say on one hand, "we're members" and on the other, "but we'll do what we want as we decide".
All that theory is fine, but parishes 'just doing what they want' has created many hundreds of new denominations in our history. There is no reason to assume that will change anytime soon.
Posted by: Matt | June 19, 2007 at 10:05 PM
its a point well taken matt, and something that the anglican church does v. well. its not something i have been able to suss out, and it has something that has caused schisms, as issues of race and gender have in the churches history before. (its why we have the AME in the states.
Posted by: Anthony | June 20, 2007 at 06:58 AM