The newly elected Bishop of Huron, the Right Reverend Robert Bennett, announced on 24 May 2009 in his first Bishop's Charge to the Synod that he was requesting the Doctrine and Worship Committee (or a sub group) to develop appropriate protocols, guidelines and evaluative tools to “enable us to move forward with appropriate liturgies to celebrate the love, mutual fidelity and support that gay and lesbian Anglicans model every day for the church and wider community. I envisage that the framework for this would be Eucharistic in nature with approved intercessory prayers but with no nuptial blessing” (as per the 2007 statement of the [Canadian] House of Bishops).

This declaration came shortly after the Anglican Consultative Council met in Jamaica and reaffirmed the moratorium of the blessing of same-sex unions. However, the Bishop of Huron considered that he was still abiding by the request of the Archbishop of Canterbury for "gracious restraint" in abiding by the moratorium.

The bishop was certainly clear that he saw the time between now and the Canadian General Synod of 2010 as an "in-between time", so that the intervening months should be used to prepare the necessary liturgical resources that could demonstrate the church's approval of same-sex unions. Moreover, this "pastoral" approach of the bishop was prepared to allow the use of these liturgies, even before the 2010 deadline:
“When the Doctrine and Worship Committee has done their work, I am prepared to consider giving permission for those requesting to move ahead (using of course, the approved liturgies).”

Why does the bishop not recognise that any eucharistic liturgy contains a blessing? Why would any same-sex couple who comes to such a specially designed service, with specially prepared prayers for them, think that the final blessing of the service did not apply to them?

Moreover, participation in the Lord's Supper without repentance only serves to bring condemnation upon oneself (1 Cor 11:27-29).