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Earlier this week the General Synod (think church parliament) of the Church of England voted ‘not to take note’ of a report prepared by the College\/House of Bishops (think: group of leaders) about human sexuality. It failed on the popular vote, but won due to the technical structure of Synod as they voted in houses. In this way, it is arguably quite similar to Donald Trump’s American Presidential Election victory. Those claiming it as a victory must recognise that ‘they’ ‘won’ on a technicality, rather than in terms of actual numbers. It is fascinating to see how systems produce results, but that isn’t what this blog post is about.<\/p>\n
This blog post, in a simple, flawed and fallen way, is hopefully<\/em> about truth, and how we talk to and around and about each other as human beings.<\/p>\n As I watched the livestream at work (after finishing work, I hasten to add!), I was struck by the uncharacteristic honesty many speakers in the debate before the vote had. I was also struck by the range of ways in which different people completely missed what the other was saying. I reproduce below some tweets, literally posted seconds from each other, which demonstrated the level of dissonance amongst people part of the same governing body:<\/p>\n