Madness

As most of you know, the big news in Anglicanism this week is the Anglican Church of Canada’s astonishing turnabout on gay unions. The titusonenine and Midwest Conservative Journal links on the right can provide you with plenty of details and commentary. But basically on Wednesday, the ACC General Synod voted to defer decisions on blessing gay unions/marriages. But then on Thursday, they affirmed the “sanctity� of committed same-sex relationships.

Putting aside whether this was right or wrong, these actions raise the question . . . what the heck were they thinking??

On Wednesday, they exercise some common sense and respect the requests from the Archbishop of Canterbury and from the Lambeth Commission to hold off on actions that would deepen divisions and make the Lambeth Commission’s work harder. But then on Thursday, they go off the deep end and with little deliberation and with only a show of hands, they declare committed gay relationships holy and virtually cut themselves off from most of the Anglican Communion.

I’ve speculated before here that there might be some madness going on among liberal North American Anglicans – madness as a form of judgment from God. This confirms it.

Maybe there was a behind the scenes method to this madness. But still this is certifiable, to exercise some degree of wisdom one day and then give the Anglican Communion the finger the next.

Incredible.