Under this system and this bishop, our future of being able to continue
on as orthodox Anglican churches is only as long as our current sitting
rectors [remain in place], she warns.

Bentley believes that if any of them should resign or retire, Ingham
will do exactly the same as what he is already doing in St.
Martinsdeclare an emergency and put in place priests and lay leaders
who are loyal to him and his liberal theology.

It makes the rest of us nervous, she says. Bishop Ingham wouldnt let
us have an orthodox minister.

And even if he did, Bentley adds, it would be highly unlikely that any
orthodox Anglican would want to serve under Ingham. It would be a
career-destroying move.

At St. Martins, parishioners were told last month that Ingham had
instructed his three bishops wardensthe lay leaders he had appointed
under Canon 15to begin the process of finding the parish a new
permanent priest.

And despite the congregation having voted overwhelmingly to the
contrary, the wardens also decided to resume sending the churchs annual
dues to the diocese.

We want to move ahead and get a wonderful new priestand the only way
to do that is to go through the diocese and pay our assessments, warden
Lindsay Buchanan told the Vancouver Sun.

Buchanan was one of two elected wardens that Ingham kept in place after
he imposed Canon 15. Yet even she describes St. Martins as a
conservative parish looking for a conservative priest who would refuse
to bless same-sex couples.

According to diocesan spokesman Neale Adams, Ingham is fully prepared to
honour St. Martins wishes on this issue. The bishopfar from being the
gay rights zealot that some have pictured him as beingcontinues to
appoint conservative priests to conservative parishes, as he feels he
ought, he said in the Sun.

But as parish spokesperson Linda Taunton notes, with Canon 15 still in
effect, the choice of a new priest is ultimately out of their hands.

Bishop Ingham is running the church, even though the bishops wardens
are there, she says. The wardens do look for and get direction from him.

Bentley says conservative Anglicans elsewhere in Canada are naïve if
they think that what is unfolding in New Westminster will never happen
to them.

This is becoming a battle about whether or not theres going to be any
room for orthodoxy within the Anglican Church of Canada, she says.

If the evangelicals, the Anglo-Catholics and the orthodox Anglicans can
get sidelined here, it could happen anywhere. The fact is were being
pushed to the sides and really encouraged to leave.

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The Crawley Doctrine: Get out

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The Crawley doctrine: Those who disagree with the Liberal theology
should find another church. Archbishop Crawley made this statement a few
years ago in a seminar at VST and again on the CBC's radio program The
Afternoon Show four days after the vote at the Diocese of New
Westminster Synod in June of 2002. A month prior to that Archbishop
Crawley had met with a delegation of the ACiNW churches and suggested
that they join the AMIA (Anglican Mission in America) - in short, leave
the Anglican Church of Canada.

The Crawley doctrine will lead to nothing short of a Liberal-only church
and those people who dissent should leave and go elsewhere. Bishop
Ingham would add to that: Leave your buildings and your bank accounts
behind. Archbishop Crawley has said that the buildings and parish assets
belong to the people of the parishes whose direct donations paid for
them and paid for their maintenance and upkeep. Ingham, on the other
hand has long threatened to remove the "dissidents" from their property.
What is he going to do with empty church buildings? The same thing he is
likely to do with other empty or under-utilized church property:
liquidate the assets to pay for expenses like salaries (including his)
and benefits which are currently squeezed due to revenue shortfalls.

It is the Liberals who are demanding radical changes to the discipline
and doctrine of the church, changes which are incompatible with both the
very "essentials" of the Christian faith and our Anglican tradition.
What the people of the ACiNW have said is simply "No. Such actions put
Bishop Ingham and his Synod beyond the pale of Orthodoxy and hence out
of communion with us."

Due to the constant threats and intimidation by Bishop Ingham the ACiNW
has appealed for protection by the Canadian House of Bishops (HOB) and
the International Primates.

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