I don’t know if the Globe and Mail’s Michael Valpy wrote the headline on his piece, but I’m sure it accurately reflects his sentiments.

Anglican bishops shoot down same-sex marriage blessings

If only the SSB motion had been “shot down”!  In fact, however, it’s more like the Motion That Wouldn’t Die.  It keeps coming back, refusing to take “no” for an answer, until it conquers.

A razor-thin majority of Canada's Anglican bishops on Sunday overrode the wishes of their laity and clergy and vetoed a resolution that would have allowed for blessings in church settings of committed homosexual unions.

The bishops “overrode the wishes of their laity and clergy”?  A rather tendentious perspective on the outcome, but that’s what we’ve come to expect from Mr Valpy.  Anyway, historically, the Anglican Church of Canada is an episcopal church, so the bishops have that prerogative.  Or, at least, they used to.  Many of us wish they still did.

Here’s a bit of hallucinatory raving wishful thinking.

The bishops' action — taken at the Canadian church's triennial general synod, or governing parliament, held in Winnipeg — will spare it from censure by leaders of other branches of the global Anglican Communion, almost all of whom are vehemently opposed to blessing same-sex unions and permitting priests to be in open homosexual relationships.

We heard that earlier this week from Kenneth Kearon and it’s no more persuasive that it was a few days ago.  Liberals who agree with Valpy and Kearon that the Communion primates are going to let Canada’s General Synod pass without comment and, indeed, censure are living in a dream world.

h/t: Virtue Online

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UPDATE (25 Jun.): The story's headline in today's print edition of the Globe has been toned down slightly to "Bishops narrowly overturn vote to approve gay unions".