Monday, June 25, 2007

A Sad and Disappointing Day

Anglican Journal News: Synod narrowly defeats same-sex blessings
Solange De Santis, staff writerJune 24, 2007
Winnipeg

Canadian Anglicans, meeting at their General Synod governing convention,voted by the slimmest of margins to defeat a proposal that would have permitted church blessing rites for gay couples.
Read this story online at http://www.anglicanjournal.com

Both lay delegates and clergy delegates, in separate votes, approved blessing same-sex unions. but the Church's Bishops in a slim 21-19 vote did not support the proposal. This is most saddening. When the numbers aree put together, there were more votes in support of this resolution than in opposition to it.

Kind of like voting in Canadian elections, and certainly the recent vote for mayor in Kingston, where more citizens voted for other candidates than voted for the person who got the most votes of the three candidates.

Soomehow, this just doesn't seem right.

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