Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Stick with true Anglican beliefs, breakaway bishop tells St. John's flock

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2008/11/03/anglican-breakaway.html?ref=rss

[cbc.ca] 5 Nov 2008--A leader of Canada's dissident Anglicans told members of newly formed parishes in St. John's Sunday night to adhere to their traditional beliefs, as a rift deepens over same-sex marriage.

"The revisionists are trying to take scripture and have it conform to the culture of our day and to the permissiveness of our society," Bishop Donald Harvey, moderator of the traditionalist Anglican Network of Canada, told a congregation of about 150 people at a service Sunday night.

"So, therefore, when it comes to same-sex blessings, we're not backing off from that in the slightest. We do not think that blessing same sex unions [is] consistent with the word of God," said Harvey, a former Anglican Church of Canada bishop of eastern Newfoundland who has become a leader of Canada's breakaway Anglican movement.

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