From Canada-The Anglican bishop for the Metro Vancouver region has approved same-sex marriages in her diocese, beginning Thursday.
Bishop Melissa Skelton made the decision despite delegates of the national Anglican Church narrowly defeating the proposal during a July 12 vote at their general synod in Vancouver.
In the latest move in a worldwide Anglican conflict that has gone on for decades, Skelton seized on a compromise that the national church’s bishops offered a few days after the defeated vote, which would allow individual dioceses to adopt a “local option” on same-sex marriage rites.
Many of the country’s Anglicans had been bitterly disappointed when the motion to allow same-sex marriages lost by the slimmest of margins earlier this month.
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https://www.thewesternstar.com/news/canada/vancouver-area-anglican-bishop-approves-same-sex-marriages-despite-national-vote-338337/
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