Vancouver - Anglican church votes to split from diocese

[Menechem]

Chang hit the Nail on the head. If you do not like what the Word of God teaches, its your problem, not ours! She is a very wise woman!

[trombonejosh]

I don't care if there are same-sex unions, but do not call it marriage and do not expect to do it in a church...

Why isn't the church allowed to retain something we hold dear without it being hijacked...

[jayhawk88z]

it seems so ight to see a man and a woman getting married thats the way

God would wont it.

[joseph1599]

dacatholicbandorgan Your concern about Glendora is understandable. I think she was a good fairy in a Disney movie. Of course, you are incapable of understanding irony. No, I did not make a spelling error when I referred to Pope Joan. As I told you, look her up on Wikpedia. I see you pop up on disident Anglican sites. It is unlikely these parishes will unite with a church headed by a former son of Hitler Youth as they don't hate the Cof E, they only hate homos and women. Like the pope.

[dacatholicbandorgan]

Now this Church can recommunicate with Rome pretty soon

[59swl]

Lawyer Cheryl Maczko-Chang saying "I know many homosexual people" is meaningless. But the following line "I have deep special friends who are homosexual" is offensive. I heard similar remarks in the USA about white people toward African Americans. And now these ultra conservative Anglicans are now turning to the African church to help them out. Me thinks if this was 1955 or even 1966 many of these same Anglicans would have not sit in the same pew with a person of colour.

[1hmm2]

@59swl I don't see how that is offensive at all. What I think is offensive is how you tried to tie "conservative Anglicans" to racists. That is appalling. Many of these so called "conservative Anglicans" (who actually BELIEVE in the Bible) are extremely loving, understanding, and compassionate people, just as the Bible commands. You're just too stuck in your perceptions to realize that.

[peetieboypearson]

Yeah...some of my best friends are gay...yeah. That's believeable.

[GodKillerAtheist]

Moses was gay hell the whole bible is gay it wants you to put a man inside of you its so sexually repressed it makes you want to fuck anyone if you follow it ever wonder why the nuts are so crazy its because there sexually repressed and any one can tell you that is mentally unhealthy THE BIBLE MAKES YOU A FAG! hell i'd be gay if I believed in half that shit

[darylfn]

Of all the important things you could spend time on -- poverty, homelessness etc. THIS is what you spend your time on? No wonder so many people are disillusioned with organized religion and want no part of it!

[macromeat]

Fundamentalist Christian churches like Pentecostals, Evangelicals and Charismatic's pushing their message on a scale never before seen in their huge mega-churches and TV Christian rock shows. Using tactics such as working and encouraging the crowd participation. Relying on the euphoria and excitement to win people over claiming its the 'holy spirit' within them. Receiving so called 'gifts' such as talking in tongues. Traditional Churches cannot compete with them.

[GodKillerAtheist]

ya its a nut parade all the cooks are out!

[AfroImpi]

Didn't the Bible also encourage enslavement of Africans? With Time, we slowly gained our right to live as humans. And now we're using the same outdated book to tread over the gays. If they want to be gay, let them be. They are not hurting anybody. Religion...what a shitty society!

[Revinius]

get your history straight. Christians were the ones who pushed for emancipation.

[prierias]

voting to go from nothing to nowhere, a charade that has nothing to do with the "one, holy, catholic, apostolic Church" of the great historical creeds

[zenistic]

Unfortunately this is the ugly face of Christianity which is hateful and exclusive. 20 years from now this will be looked on the same way the Klan is looked on today.

[jgrig2]

evangelicals have always stood for the Gospel Truth in face of social pressure. Popular trends come and go but the Gospel of Jesus Christ stands forever.

[espiel]

Many are supporting you for your clear and courageous stand in support of the truth of Scripture.

[dickglover]

It is bizarre to see this supermarket of ecclesiastical authority being manipulated in this way amongst all shades of theological polity. The bible is just the creation of a 4th century Catholic council. Most of the scriptures were left out of it because the bishops didn't agree with some content. The idea of the bible as the "Word of God" is just a Reformation invention. Jesus Christ is the Word of God, not a book artificially edited by a group of 4th century bishops.

[ZeeMoss]

Sydney Anglicans are praying for St John's, thanking God that you have stood up for the truth and authority of the word of God, the Holy Scriptures. This is not about discrimination, but helping all people from all backgrounds and stages of life to know the claims of the Lord Jesus on their lives. When we distort those claims we show a lack of love for those we seek to reach. Thank you St John's for showing real love for people by standing up for the Scriptures.

[intactivist1]

I'm not sure why any sane person would wish to be part of any organization that discriminates. I feel sorry for those people so thoroughly indoctrinated into religion at a young age that they are helpless without it.