An Open Letter to the Anglican Church of Canada

http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/index.php/2008/01/02/an-open-letter-to-the-anglican-church-of-canada/

[Anglican Mainstream] 2 Jan 2008--As a result of the report in the December issue of the Anglican Journal regarding the November Meetings of the House of Bishops, I find it most distressing that the House of Bishops and Council of General Synod has been totally dishonest with themselves by publically condemning the Rt. Rev. Don Harvey (retired Bishop of Eastern NL.) for causing the Schism which now engulfs the Anglican Church - with serious ramifications to the World Wide Anglican Communion (WWAC). If the honoured clergy and their representatives would truthfully examine the history of the difficulty, they would realize that the current schism in the ACC was precipitated by the Rt. Rev. Michael Ingham (Bishop of New Westminister) who unilaterally decided, some ten years ago, to allow within his diocese, the blessing of same-sex relationships and marriage; contrary to Anglican Church Canon, and the law of the land. For a minister of the Church, let alone a Bishop of the ACC, blatantly to disregard the law of the land, as well as the Canon of the Church and its traditional faith and teaching, is nothing short of scandalous and schismatic. The dispute never should have occurred, let alone taken over a decade of debate and chaos within the whole church, but should have been settled immediately by prudent dismissal of the perpetrators of such illegal action. Today the WWAC is in deep turmoil by the failure to deal expeditiously in this crucial matter of Faith and Doctrine.