{"id":10539,"date":"2009-01-05T18:51:57","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T18:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_of_england_remains_divided_over_historic_reforms_to_create_women_bis\/"},"modified":"2009-01-05T18:51:57","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T18:51:57","slug":"church_of_england_remains_divided_over_historic_reforms_to_create_women_bis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10539","title":{"rendered":"Church of England remains divided over historic reforms to create women bishops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After years of bitter wrangling over the issue, a report was published last week that advocated creating a new class of clergy to cater for traditionalists who refuse to accept women&#8217;s ordination.<\/p>\n<p>However, 41 per cent of respondents said they would not back such a solution, and a further eight per cent said they were undecided.<\/p>\n<p>Figures on both sides of the debate argued that providing &#8220;complementary&#8221; or &#8220;flying&#8221; bishops for opponents of female bishops was unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>While traditionalists said that this did not represent a satisfactory safeguard, supporters of women bishops claimed it is too great a concession.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/politics\/labour\/4092597\/Church-remains-divided-over-historic-reforms-to-create-women-bishops.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years of bitter wrangling over the issue, a report was published last week that advocated creating a new class of clergy to cater for traditionalists who refuse to accept women&#8217;s ordination. However, 41 per cent of respondents said they<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10539\">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":[36,74,389,635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10539","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=10539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}