VANCOUVER, July 3, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Dr. George Carey, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has condemned Michael Ingham, Vancouver’s renegade liberal bishop, and his local synod, for causing schism among Anglicans by voting to bless homosexual unions. As titular head of the world’s 70 million Anglicans, Carey lacks disciplinary powers outside the Church of England proper, and his imminent retirement further weakens the authority of his letter. But he made it clear that he regards Ingham’s maneuver a “departure from the main thrust of Anglican moral tradition” and proof that “individual dioceses should not ‘go it alone’ in respect of such matters.” A senior Canadian Anglican priest told the Globe and Mail’s Michael Valpy on condition of anonymity, that Carey’s remarks were “a bit over the line”—presumably in contrast to blessing homosexual unions, which the priest did not comment on. Ingham, in a typically disingenuous and manipulative interview with an apparently naive Valpy, said: “I took it [Carey’s letter] as a request for information. He’s clearly not aware of the years of study and thought that’s gone into this.” Ingham dismissed Carey’s remarks as a sop to ultra-conservatives. Meanwhile priests in his diocese who reject homosexual marriage, on grounds that it is utterly at odds with elementary Christian doctrine, were given a July 2 deadline to capitulate or face sanctions. “Everyone will be tolerated—who agrees; no one will be excluded—who agrees!” was how Dean Mercer, president of the orthodox Anglican group Fidelity, summed up Ingham’s vaunted tolerance and inclusiveness, in a letter to the National Post. For Globe and Mail coverage see: https://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/GIS.Servlets.HTMLTemplate?current_row=9&tf=tgam/common/FullStory.html&cf=tgam/common/FullStory.cfg&configFileLoc=tgam/config&vg=BigAdVariableGenerator&date=20020703&dateOffset=&hub=national&title=national&cache_key=nationalTheNationHeadline&start_row=9&num_rows=1 For Dean Mercer’s letter to the National Post, “Was the bishop unfaithful?”, see the print edition for July 3, 2002, page A15.
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SENIOR ANGLICAN ARCHBISHOP SLAMS INGHAM’S HOMOSEXUAL BLESSINGS
VANCOUVER, July 3, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Dr. George Carey, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has condemned Michael Ingham, Vancouver’s renegade liberal bishop, and his local synod, for causing schism among Anglicans by voting to bless homosexual unions. As titular head of the world’s 70 million Anglicans, Carey lacks disciplinary powers outside the Church of England proper, and his imminent retirement further weakens the authority of his letter. But he made it clear that he regards Ingham’s maneuver a “departure from the main thrust of Anglican moral tradition” and proof that “individual dioceses should not ‘go it alone’ in respect of such […]
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