Message to same-sex marriage supporters: hold the simmering epithets you were brewing for the Anglican Church of Canada.
Waste of breath.
After rejecting the idea of same-sex marriage on Monday, the church’s legislative body, the General Synod, reversed itself late Tuesday, saying the voting process had been flawed.
To pass the pro-same-sex marriage resolution required two-thirds of three orders–lay, clergy and bishops.
The resolution was defeated when the clergy failed to reach the threshold by one vote that was apparently not counted because it was counted in the lay order.
Following the original vote, a number of prominent bishops said they would perform same-sex marriages despite the ruling.
The resolution must now be affirmed by the 2019 Synod before it officially becomes church law.
The Anglican Church is the third largest Canadian church, after the Roman Catholic Church (about 13 million members) and the United Church of Canada (about two million members).
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