The Anglican Church of Canada seems deeply divided tonight — and a little confused — after it reversed itself on the question of allowing same-sex marriage. It was believed the vote had narrowly rejected that resolution but when a recount was held a similarly narrow victory for same-sex union was recorded. To pass, the resolution required two-thirds of each of three orders — lay, clergy and bishops. The clergy failed to reach that threshold by that one vote. But that vote was there, not counted amongst clergy because it got mixed up with the lay order vote. The error was discovered after delegates requested a detailed hard copy of the electronic voting records.
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