No core Anglican doctrines should prevent the blessing of same-sex unions, Canadian Anglican leaders said in a decision that could set their church on a collision course with the global Anglican Communion. This decision by the Anglican Church of Canada's Council of General Synod (CoGS), akin to the ELCIC's National Church Council (NCC), means that this June Canada's Anglicans will likely be voting on a motion to give their dioceses, roughly equivalent to synods in the ELCIC, the option to conduct same-sex blessings, a motion that had been deferred from their previous national meeting (General Synod) held in 2004. This decision by CoGS, similar to a decision by the ELCIC's NCC in January, puts the two full communion partners, the ELCIC and the Anglican Church of Canada, in lock-step with respect to the kinds of decisions that the leaders of both church bodies are promoting for their respective national conventions to be held during the second-last week in June in Winnipeg.
Also see report, in the Anglican Journal.
