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1a) http://gs2004.classicalanglican.com/modules/news/ NEW WESTMINSTER Parishioners, diocese face off: "A Sunshine Coast clergyman is threatening to call the police on a rival preacher -- the latest salvo in a battle over same-sex blessings that is dividing the Anglican Church. Ah, sweet reconciliation! ... (canada.com, NewWest)
1b) http://www.vancouver.anglican.ca/Portal/Default.aspx?tabid=1&mode=Story&StoryId=136 Diocesan Reconciliation Task Force makes another appeal for input Last Updated: Thursday 10 Mar, 2005, 02:46 PM The Diocesan Reconciliation Task Force has made another appeal for input from Anglicans in the Diocese of New Westminster. The task force has come up with preliminary recommendations and is asking for comment. In brief, the recommendations - according to the Rev. Kevin Dixon, chair - are that the diocese, while continuing the blessing of same sex unions, formally respond to the recommendations of Primates of the Anglican Communion that met in Ireland, and continue to seek the advice from others in the Anglican Church of Canada regarding the dissenting parishes in the diocese(...)
1c) http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=2203 Posted by David Virtue on 2005/3/13 17:30:00 (Virtue Online) http://www.canada.com/images/NewsPages/Province/prov_front.jpg http://www.canada.com/vancouver/theprovince/news/story.html?id=3009edd6-133f-4b03-90e6-32de2cc8e256 Vancouver Province, Sunday March 13th 2005, A1 "Hands off our Church!" by Ethan Baron, Staff Reporter -"Same-sex Blessings Battle: An Anglican clergyman whose Sunshine Coast congregation has broken away in a fight over same-sex marriage blessings says he will demand police help if diocesan officials come to seize his church" (Front Page Photo) Rev. Barclay Mayo, seen standing outside the Anglican Church in Pender Harbour, has been ordered replaced. But Mayo says he won't go - and if officials come to oust him, they'll face opposition from church members. (Duane Burnett-Coast Reporter) p. A3, "Parishioners, diocese face off" "Same-sex Showdown: Pastor won't give up church without a fight" A Sunshine Coast clergyman is threatening to call the police on a rival preacher -- the latest salvo in a battle over same-sex blessings that is dividing the Anglican Church. The Diocese of New Westminster has officially replaced Rev. Barclay Mayo, who serves Pender Harbour, with Rev. Mark Lemon, who has been serving St. Hilda's Anglican Church in Sechelt. But Mayo is standing his ground. "On April 1st, all the wardens and trustees will be in the church. If Mr. Lemon shows up with the intention of taking over the church, we'll call the police.", Mayo says. (note: see clarification by Rev. Mayo below) Last year, Mayo and many of his congregation left the Anglican Church of Canada to protest Bishop Michael Ingham's decision to allow the blessing of same-sex couples. The disaffected congregation linked itself to a remote African (Province) - the Rwandan Anglican Church - under Archbishop Emmanuel Kolini. They renamed the Pender Harbour parish Christ the Redeemer and continued to use the church buildings and land. Mayo says Christ the Redeemer has a strong legal case for possession of the church, based on the "beneficial ownership" argument often used in divorce cases. "People in our congregation are the ones who bought, paid for and maintained the building," Mayo says. "We're just going to stay." Meanwhile, at St. Simon's Church in North Vancouver, Rev. Ed Hird is up against a similar deadline to depart his church. Hird leads one of the 11 congregations that split from the Anglican Church of Canada to form the Anglican Communion in Canada (http://www.acicanada.ca/ ) Like Mayo, Hird now faces an April 1st ultimatum. "They're using that old medieval concept that the bishop is almost like a pope or something, where all the assets belong to him," Hird says. "We think we have a very good case that the congregation owns its own assets. We have title deed." "We're not going to be intimidated by the diocese huffing and puffing." But Hird and his flock will comply with a court order, should it come to that, he says. "If, at the end of the day, we're thrown out of the building, so be it," Hird said. His congregation backs the protest. "You cannot believe the Bible and bless same-sex [marriages]," parishioner Stuart Spani told The Province. "What the Bible says is homosexuals and other sinner cannot enter heaven." "[Homosexuality] is a very unhealthy lifestyle. This is what this country is pushing like mad. It destroyed the Roman Empire, the Greek Empire and the Persian Empire. Are we heading the same direction?" According to George Cadman, legal officer for the diocese, the diocese will seek a court order to evict Mayo, Hird and their congregation if they're not out of the church by April 1. "They're part of a breakaway faction and would like to stay in premises that they have no right to occupy," Cadman says. "Every avenue of reconciliation was pursued, and this step has been required because of their actions." Cadman noted that the 'vast majority' of parishes in Ingham's diocese have not authorized same-sex blessing. Steve Schuh, president of Integrity Vancouver, a gay and lesbian Anglican support group, says Mayo and Hird are "scapegoating" gays and lesbians as they push a broader conservative social agenda. "The real differences come down to most cultural differences around the ordination of women, around the inclusion of gay and lesbian people in the church," Schuh says. The B.C. battle reflects a worldwide debate among Anglicans over issues involving homosexuality. Conservative Anglicans, including many in Africa and Asia, are disturbed by the Diocese of New Westminster's decision to bless gay couples, and by the ordination of an openly gay bishop in the U.S. Episcopal Church. In February, senior Anglican (Arch)bishops (Primates) from around the world demanded that the Canadian and U.S. bishops refrain from attending the Church's deliberative assembly and demanded a Canadian apology for Ingham's approval of same-sex blessings. Ingham's churches represent about 6,000 people out of some 77 million Anglicans worldwide. "Why should 6,000 individuals on the West Coast (average Sunday attendance of the remaining New West parishes) be able to reinvent the rules? Hird asked. ebaron@png.canwest.com -with a file from Nancy Moote
*Clarifying comment by Rev. Barclay Mayo, Christ the Redeemer, Pender Harbour: "We will stay , but if they show up with a court order, we would just leave. We are law-abiding citizens. But if they came (without a court order) and disrupted the Church service, we would have no choice but to call the police because they would be disturbing the peace."
1d) http://www.canada.com/vancouver/theprovince/news/story.html?id=272e0818-65fa-436c-9bbb-56fc0b367b72 Vancouver Province, Monday, March 14, 2005 Eviction 'unchristian' Anglican Church: Bishop wants renegades* out (*Note from Ed+: Concise Oxford Dictionary on "Renegade": 1. Apostate, especially from Christianity to Mohammedianism/Islam; deserter of party or principles, turncoat [from medieval Latin: re<negatus from negare {to deny} By Nancy Moote PENDER HARBOUR -- Parishioners of a break-away Anglican church said yesterday that an order from the Diocese of New Westminster to move out by April 1 is "unchristian." The congregation withdrew from the Anglican Church of Canada last year to protest against Bishop Michael Ingham's decision to bless same-sex couples. Parishioners renamed St. Andrew's Church in Pender Harbour as Christ the Redeemer and continued to use the building. Now the Diocese of New Westminster has told Rev. Barclay Mayo and his flock to move out by April 1st. "We had an eviction notice tacked to the door, but that's not enough to move us out," said Bill Course, verger of Christ the Redeemer. "We'll require a court order." After services yesterday, parishioners echoed Course's feelings. "A lot of people contributed to the building and maintenance of [this church]," said Marjory Mackay. "I kind of feel that we should keep it." Her daughter-in-law, Nancy Mackay, wondered how the bishop would pay the hydro and insurance without a congregation to support the church. Mackay said parishioners feel as if they are being punished for continuing to worship traditionally. "We've never done anything wrong," she said. "We never changed. They changed, and we're taking the heat for it." Ingham has appointed Rev. Mark Lemon of St. Hilda's Anglican Church in Sechelt as the interim priest of St. Andrew's. Course predicted, that if Lemon does take over the church, "he'll be preaching to empty pews." Course helped build St. Andrew's Church in 1979. He said the parish grew out of the Columbia Coast Mission, which operated a mission hospital in Garden Bay. Later, the congregation met in the local Legion hall, sharing a minister with St. Hilda's in Sechelt. The Pender Harbour congregation finally got their own building when it received a donation allowing it to buy the present property. Course believes that the diocese provided about $10,000 of the total $80,000 cost for the church. Course said the congregation "still thinks poorly of Bishop Ingham for taking the action he has taken of blessing same-sex unions." "We don't have bad feelings about homosexuals," he said. "We would welcome them. But we don't support blessing their unions because it's unbiblical."
1e) http://gs2004.classicalanglican.com/modules/news/ FEEL THE LOVE: Inghamite reconciliation-troops on the march-- "Chancellor acts to restore Canadian Anglican™ ministry in two parishes" ... (vancouver.anglican.ca)
1f) A reminder that it's about far more than same-sex issues http://www.cathedral.vancouver.bc.ca/worship/sunday_morning.htm Note from Ed+: On the Fourth Sunday of Lent (March 6th 2005) at Christ Church Cathedral, a former evangelical church, where my maternal grandmother attended for many years, they read/sang the following version of Psalm 23 printed in their public liturgy: "The Lord is my shepherd, I have all I need. She makes me lie down in green meadows, Beside the still waters, She will lead. She restores my soul, She rights my wrongs, She leads me in a path of good things, And fills my heart with songs.
Even though I walk, through a dark and dreary land, There is nothing that can shake me, She has said, She won't forsake me, I'm in Her hand.
She sets a table before me, in the presence of my foes. She anoints my head with oil, And my cup overflows.
Surely, surely goodness and kindness will follow me, All the days of my life, And I will live in Her house, Forever, forever and ever.
Glory be to our Mother and Daughter, and to the Holy of Holies. As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, World without end. Amen (Setting: Bobby McFerrin)
1g) http://www.anglicanessentials.org/fusion_pages/index.php?page_id=2 Montreal Declaration of Anglican Essentials 1. The Triune God There is one God, self-revealed as three persons, "of one substance, power and eternity," the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. For the sake of the Gospel we decline proposals to modify or marginalize these names and we affirm their rightful place in prayer, liturgy, and hymnody(...)
1h) http://www3.telus.net/st_simons/arm02.htm ONWARD CHRISTIAN TORTOISES... (An article for the Anglicans for Renewal Canada Magazine) Our Sophia Which art in Heaven??? (...)With the inclusion of syncretistic hymns in the new General Synod hymnbook (using concepts like "Strong mother God" "Mother, brother, holy partner" "Womb of life" and "Welcome Great Sophia"), I am wondering (only half-jokingly) how long it will be until a new organization emerges, entitled The Blue Hymn Book Society of Canada(...)
1i) http://www.cathedral.vancouver.bc.ca/worship/blessings.htm Christ Church Cathedral, Vancouver, BC Same Sex Blessings Policy for offering the Rite for the Celebration of Lesbian and Gay Covenants: (...)Every service of blessing is a service of Christian worship. Therefore, at least one of the couple must be baptized(...) If the couple is seeking a civil marriage, they should be directed to a marriage commissioner, with the approved liturgy serving as a celebration that could follow the legal marriage. The priest will indicate that there is a period of preparation required. At least 6 weeks notice is needed prior to the celebration. The couple must participate either in the Cathedral's "Commitment Workshop" or individual counseling sessions with the priest(...) The fee for a celebration is the same as for a wedding; $800 with a deposit of $100 to secure day and time of service(...)
1j) http://gs2004.classicalanglican.com/modules/news/ http://titusonenine.classicalanglican.net/index.php?p=1566 The Living Church, June 17th 2004 (...)General Synod members elected the Very Rev. Peter J. Elliott, the openly gay dean of Christ Church Cathedral in Vancouver, British Columbia, as prolocutor (or chairman) of General Synod. Dean Elliott already had served as deputy prolocutor(...)
1k) http://www.listenuptv.com/programs/040108ang2.htm Monday, October 27, 2003 (over 16 months later) Anglican church charges clergymen By GREG JOYCE VANCOUVER (CP) (...)Charged are Rev. Stephen Leung, Rev. David Short, Rev. Barclay Mayo, Rev. Simon Chin, Rev. Silas Ng, Rev. Dr. Trevor Walters, and Rev. Ed Hird. (...)Earlier this month, Archbishop David Crawley, chief bishop in B.C. and the Yukon, said he had begun disciplinary proceedings against Buckle.
The charges, identical for all seven clergy, include disobedience to the bishop, contemptuous or disrespectful conduct towards the bishop, schism, conduct causing scandal, and "otherwise offences against the lawful authority of the bishop."
Neale Adams, a spokesman for the diocese, said possible punishments include penance, suspension, withdrawal of licence and excommunication(...)
Of the parishes that favour same-sex blessings, six have formally agreed to conduct the blessings, including Christ Church Cathedral in downtown Vancouver.
Dean Peter Elliott of Christ Church said charges were warranted because the bishop has been lenient with the opponents.
"The view of Bishop Ingham and the diocese has always been that we want to find a way in our church to accommodate people who have different conscience on this issue," said Elliott.
"The issue in my view is not anymore about the blessing of same-sex unions. The issue is about the authority of a bishop within a diocese."(...)
Anglican bishop decisions divide followers CFCN.ca (CTV) POSTED AT 6:04 PM Wednesday, March 09 Calgary Anglican Bishop, Barry Hollowell, is defending controversial decisions leading up to his resignation(…)
2b) http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/ Calgary Bishop resigns in Closure Storm 10th March 2005
2c) http://www.christianweek.org/Stories/vol18/no24/province.html Is the good ship Anglican listing? Tim Callaway, Christian Week, Alberta Correspondent alberta@christianweek.org
As if the Anglican Church of Canada's recent problems with a bankrupt diocese and a maverick bishop in British Columbia haven't given denominational leaders enough sleepless nights, the Church is now also encountering unrest among its ranks in Calgary(…)
Reverend David Carter, who also served as a Calgary MLA and Speaker of the Alberta Legislature (1979-93), states: "This was a very stupid mistake, an insult to a parish that has never received any support from the diocese. This was the second building in all of Alberta designated a provincial historical site," Carter notes. "If they try to tear it down, I'll take them to court."
The bishop remains unbowed.
"The present reality is that the Cathedral Church of the Redeemer fails to meet the basic requirements of being designated a parish, let alone a cathedral," he told the Calgary Herald.
Hmm. Seems the good ship Anglican is listing to the west.
3) http://www.religionjournal.com/showarticle.asp?id=2049 Canadians Upset Over 'Snub' by the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams rejects invitation to a meeting of Canadian and American bishops and sends "a very, very negative symbol to the Canadian church." By RON CSILLAG (RNS) The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, has rejected an invitation to attend a joint meeting of Canadian and American bishops next month, resulting in uncharacteristically pointed accusations by the Canadian church of a snub over the issue of homosexuality.
"It does send a very, very negative symbol to the Canadian church, no question," said the primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, Archbishop Andrew Hutchison. "The message it sends to us is that at the moment he does not want to be associated with the Canadians."(…)
4a) http://gs2004.classicalanglican.com/modules/news/ SECTARIAN LIBERALISM = one long rending highway-sized set of car crashes. United Church of Canada anything but ... (nsnews.com) http://www.nsnews.com/issues05/w022005/024305/opinion/024305op1.html United Church of Canada anything but Trevor Lautens, Contributing Writer, North Shore News (…)Anglicanism has reached a more critical point. In Christian circles and media, more vigorous than you might think, Vancouver's New Westminster diocese led by Bishop Michael Ingham drove a worldwide wedge in the church by choosing to bless same-sex unions. Ingham has revoked the licences of four defiant priests, and tried to change the locks on their thriving churches.
Two of the defiant are in North Vancouver, Rev. Ed Hird of St. Simon's and Rev. Paul Carter of the fledgling St. Timothy's, now members of the breakaway (or is it Ingham and his progressive friends who have broken away?) Anglican Communion in Canada. They reject Ingham's authority but remain in the world-wide Anglican communion under the Archbishop of Canterbury(…)
North Shore News, Letters to the Editor, March 9th 2005 Dear Editor: Clergy serving United Churches on the North Shore wish to respond to Trevor Lautens' column, United Church in Canada Anything But (North Shore News, Feb 25th).
The United Church of Canada is a progressive denomination of an ancient tradition. To suggest, as the article does, that the denomination is shattered is an opinion we strongly reject.
With our forbears, we uphold that every generation must read, interpret and wrestle with the ancient scriptures and teachings of our Christian tradition.
That our interpretations vary from generation to generation in no way means that the basis of our tradition is shattered. We believe that neither the Holy Spirit nor human beings are stagnant, but alive, dynamic and moving, as should be our theological expressions.
For this reason, our denomination commissioned the Committee on Theology and Faith, a group of clergy and lay theologians from across Canada, to develop a draft statement that expresses with a contemporary voice the core theological stance of the diverse community that is the United Church of Canada. The draft is now available to all congregations across the country for review and dialogue. Anyone else who would like to read it may find it on the national website http://www.united-church.ca/
The new statement has been mandated to augment, but not replace, existing statements and creeds. The draft statement is our denomination's attempt to wrestle with the essential elements of our faith, keeping alive, in St. Augustine's words, what is "so ancient and so new".
As with any religious group or organization, the United Church of Canada includes people oriented both toward conserving and liberalizing the tradition. Both elements are essential. We are indebted to those who have safeguarded the wisdom and practices of a 2,000-year-old faith.
Likewise, we are indebted to those who feel compelled to stretch the borders of the tradition in order to respond faithfully to current challenges, which have included the ordination of women and the abolition of slavery. That the conserving and liberalizing elements of this denomination are in tension is not only inevitable but essential in a diverse and united church.
As the orthodox theologian Karl Barth insisted, an informed person of faith carries "the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other." We need both and the undersigned use both. We believe we are called to immerse ourselves in the critical circumstances of our day and the deep wisdom of our tradition. We believe the draft statement arises from doing just that. Rev. Dan Chambers, St. David's United Church; Rev. Debra Bowman, Capilano United Church; Rev. Nancy Talbot, Mount Seymour United Church; Rev. Mollie Williams and Rev. Rob Pollock, Highlands United Church; Rev. Sharon Copeman, Lynn Valley United Church; Rev. Marianna Harris, St. Andrew's United Church; Rev. Don Collett and Rev. Sandra Severs, West Vancouver United Church; Rev. Robin Jacobson
5) http://www.christianity.ca/frame.html?http://www.retirementwithapurpose.com/johngrisham.html John Grisham - Still Just an Ordinary Man by Robyn Conley-Weaver As John Grisham and his family moved from town to town during his childhood, two things were always important to him: his involvement in sports and his spiritual life(…)
6a) From the Daily Telegraph, London, Saturday, March 12, 2005 at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/03/12/nchurch12.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/03/12/ixportal.html Clergymen refuse communion with bishop in row over gays By Jonathan Petre, Religion Correspondent and Jonathan Wynne-Jones (Filed: 12/03/2005) (...)In what could be the start of an escalating conflict, at least eight conservative clerics have told the Bishop of Chelmsford, the Rt Rev John Gladwin, that they will refuse to share Holy Communion with him. They are furious that the bishop and five of his colleagues sent a letter to a national newspaper earlier this week announcing their determined support for liberal Anglicans in North America.
The group could prove the tip of an iceberg because 100 priests in the diocese - more than a fifth of the total -signed a statement in November expressing unease about the liberal drift of the Anglican Church.
(...)He said that a number of conservative parishes would not be able to participate in services of confirmation, baptism or communion with Bishop Gladwin(...)
6b) http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/news05031201.asp Statement on Sacramental Fellowship with the Bishop of Chelmsford 12th March 2005, Anglican Mainstream International
The 'broken sacramental fellowship' between ourselves and the Bishop of Chelmsford, reported in the Daily Telegraph for the 12th March, is intended as a response to his own declaration of "full sacramental fellowship" with the churches of Canada and the US declared in a letter to the Times on the 7th March and signed by himself and five other diocesan bishops(...)
In order to emphasise to them the way their actions have been perceived and the consequences they will have if pursued further, some of us have felt it necessary to declare our own "sacramental fellowship" with our diocesan bishop to be no longer "full", but rather "in abeyance".
This is not a rejection of the bishop's canonical and lawful authority. It is an issue of sacramental fellowship only. However, we hope he will appreciate from this the seriousness of his own actions and seek to be reconciled to ourselves and the wider church.
Revd John P Richardson Revd Dick Farr
7a) http://gs2004.classicalanglican.com/modules/news/ http://www.indystar.com/articles/4/228568-1304-047.html Word on the street, Indy Star Newspaper, Indianapolis, USA Focus on sex 'devil's work,' Episcopal leaders say March 12, 2005 The leaders of the Episcopal Church in the United States and the Anglican Church in South Africa said a global schism over homosexuality is the devil's work and distracts the church from its real mission in the world.
Episcopal Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold and his counterpart from Cape Town, Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane, blamed U.S. conservatives for making sexuality the "international focus" of the church.
"I think the endless fixation on sexuality is the devil's work,"(...)
Ndungane is one of the few African archbishops who has stood beside the U.S. branch of Anglicanism as it faces global condemnation for the consecration of an openly gay bishop in New Hampshire.
7b) http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/religion/3080794 A house of cards Anglican bishops meeting on issues that still threaten fragile Communion By RICHARD VARA, Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle (...)"The stakes have never been higher," said the Rev. Kendall S. Harmon, editor of the conservative Anglican Digest and theologian in residence at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Summerville, S. C. "This is the most serious crisis in the history of the Communion."(...)
"Right now the most likely outcome is further delay or no decision," Harmon said(...)
Bishop Robert Duncan of Pittsburgh, a conservative leader, said there was plenty the House of Bishops could do.
"Bishops are the only ones who can ordain, bishops are the only ones who control what rites are used in a diocese, bishops are the only ones who consecrate," Duncan said. "Bishops have some real power over this(...)
"If the House of Bishops won't lead, the church is in terrible trouble," Duncan said. He also predicted the bishops would likely choose inaction at the Navasota meeting, which ends Wednesday(...)
"Here is the Anglican Communion effectively saying we need a trial separation, and if you don't do it we are heading to divorce," Harmon said. "It is not a time to dither* and not make decisions."(...)
*Dither (as in Mr. Dithers): Concise Oxford Dictionary: tremble, quiver, vacillate
7c) http://newark.rutgers.edu/~lcrew/natter/msg00017.html * Subject: Re: some thoughts about the Anglican Communion right now * From: Louie Crew <lcrew@andromeda.rutgers.edu> * Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 21:22:53 -0500 It's the decision of Executive Council, which meets the week before the ACC meets. We will likely decide earlier through a conference call, but I don't expect those details to be forthcoming until after the House of Bishops meeting this week.
The Presiding Bishop is our presiding officer at Executive Council. Since he is taking a lion's share of the heat right now, I will listen closely to what he has to say. On the other hand, since he signed the primates' communiqué, he most likely will need us to speak the will of the church in regard to whether our ACC members go.
I expect that we will ask them to go, but I have not polled anyone on Council. I expect the Canadians to attend as well. The bishop member from Canada and from TEC are both women; I suspect that's one reason the primates don't want them at the table. (Rt. Rev. Sue Moxley, Bishop Suffragan of Nova Scotia; Rt. Rev. Cathy Roskam, Bishop Suffragan of New York).
The primates have no juridical authority outside their own provinces. Theirs is just a recommendation to the Communion. It is important not to give them power to determine membership in the ACC, which is an elected body which has its own rules for enfranchisement.
It is important that we attend peaceably(...) Rejoice! L(ouie Crew). (Note: Louie Crew is the founder of the homosexual activist group Integrity, and a member of ECUSA's Executive Council)
8a) http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=2196 NEW HAMPSHIRE BISHOP IMPLIES JESUS MIGHT HAVE BEEN GAY By David W. Virtue WENHAM, MA (3/11/2005)--The homoerotic bishop of New Hampshire V. Gene Robinson told parishioners at Christ Church of Hamilton and Wenham that while Jesus was on this earth he was only in the company of men, his disciples, and referenced that Jesus talked about the "one he loved," implying that Jesus may have been a homosexual himself(...)
8b) http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/living/religion/11109201.htm Posted on Sat, Mar. 12, 2005 For Episcopalians, this might be the big one By Jim Jones, Special to the Star-Telegram
Wrangling over gay rights and women's ordination issues has plagued the Episcopal Church since I began covering religion in the late 1970s. Somehow, the venerable church, founded in 1785, hasn't fallen apart. But I'm not so sure about this latest crisis(...)
9) http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Michael_Coren/2005/03/09/954582.htmlFAMILY FILMS ARE IGNORED BY ELITES Michael Coren Sun Media Wednesday, March 9, 2005THE Oscars came and went. Another spasm of self-congratulation and indulgence(...) Million Dollar Baby, for example, was as much about euthanasia as about boxing and gave a blatant defence of the killing of the handicapped and the terminally ill. Little attention has been given to large-scale protests against the film by leaders of the disabled community(...) Another hyped film, Kinsey, chronicled the life of an infamous sex-researcher. But it was hagiography. It didn't tell us, for example, that he was a homosexual masochist, or that he refused to condemn those among his research subjects who had raped children, some as young as 15 months(...) Which brings me to The Passion of the Christ and its predictable but shameful lack of any major nominations at the Oscars(...)
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