It is a slippery slope for sure.
First you have gay marriage, then gay ministers and then you are giving dogs communion.
Those crazy, radical, progressive Anglicans. The Toronto Star tells the story of St. Peter’s Anglican Church which has long been known as an open and inclusive place. So open that it offers communion to puppies. A dog was seen receiving communion from interim priest Rev. Marguerite Rea during a morning service the last Sunday in June.
"According to those in attendance at the historical church at 188 Carlton St. in downtown Toronto, it was a spontaneous gesture, one intended to make both the dog and its owner – a first timer at the church — feel welcomed. But at least one parishioner saw the act as an affront to the rules and regulations of the Anglican Church. He filed a complaint with the reverend and with the Anglican Diocese of Toronto about the incident – and has since left the church."
So, if the complainer has left the church why give a rat's ass? And what would Jesus Christ do? The complainer says Mr. Christ would not approve; Peggy Needham, the deputy people’s warden at St. Peter's says "...in my opinion, Christ would have thought it was neat. It was just being human. And it made everyone smile."
I think Mr. Christ would also be online re gay ministers and gay marriage too.
WFDS
Are you sure the dog ate it or did he put it in his owners pocket?
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There you go. You allow women to be ordained women and the damn church goes to the dogs.
ReplyDeleteThis story is going to make Pope Maledict's Vatican Taliban very, very happy.
Good catch there, Danielle!
It pretty much confirms the degraded state of the old line formerly Christian Churches such the the United Church and the Anglican Church. Disrespect for the central memorial service of the core teaching of the Christian Church is a final symptom of the death of those institutions as Christian Churches. Given their actions, they will not be missed.Let them be what their members want them to be but they are abandoning the Christian faith.
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