{"id":10538,"date":"2009-01-05T18:39:24","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T18:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_of_england_accuses_labour_of_failing_to_support_the_family\/"},"modified":"2009-01-05T18:39:24","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T18:39:24","slug":"church_of_england_accuses_labour_of_failing_to_support_the_family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10538","title":{"rendered":"Church of England accuses Labour of failing to support the family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the straw poll of members of the General Synod, the Church&#8217;s parliament, an overwhelming majority of those questioned said that the bishops were right to speak out.<\/p>\n<p>The survey also uncovered serious concerns over the state of British society and Labour&#8217;s lack of support for the family.<\/p>\n<p>This newspaper questioned 71 members of the 467-strong Synod, one in seven of the total. Of those questioned, 86 per cent said the bishops had been &#8220;right to criticise the Government at this particular time&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly half, 48 per cent, said it was time for a change of government, while 45 per cent agreed with David Cameron&#8217;s claim that Britain is a &#8220;broken&#8221; society.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/religion\/4092611\/Church-accuses-Labour-of-failing-to-support-the-family.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the straw poll of members of the General Synod, the Church&#8217;s parliament, an overwhelming majority of those questioned said that the bishops were right to speak out. The survey also uncovered serious concerns over the state of British society<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10538\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,40,50,74,389,635,149,199,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-economy","category-england-uk","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}