Finn Keesmaat-Walsh
Earlier this week I joined over 300 Anglicans across Canada in signing ACCtoo’s open letter (if you haven’t read it, I would recommend reading it before reading the rest of this post, you can find it at acctoo.ca/open-letter).
As a member of the Council of General Synod (CoGS) (one of the groups/people the letter is addressed to), I didn’t sign earlier because I wanted to see what CoGS’s response would be before signing, and it felt weird to be signing a letter that was technically addressed to me. But I can’t just sit back and keep quiet anymore. I can’t let the statement from CoGS (https://bit.ly/3L4pxmD) be the only thing coming from me on this. I want to publicly say that I did not support the CoGS reply to ACCtoo. I’m part of why the CoGS statement was “not unanimous”. I didn’t support it because it isn’t enough. We did not endorse the three calls to action in ACCtoo’s letter; we didn’t even address all of them.