{"id":112459,"date":"2022-05-24T16:02:49","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T20:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=112459"},"modified":"2022-05-24T18:33:26","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T22:33:26","slug":"scotsman-church-of-scotland-general-assembly-2022-kirk-says-ministers-can-conduct-same-sex-marriages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=112459","title":{"rendered":"(Scotsman) Church of Scotland General Assembly 2022: Kirk says ministers can conduct same-sex marriages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The General Assembly voted by 274 to 136 to approve a change in church law to allow the move, but ministers who do not want to conduct such weddings will not have to.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotsman.com\/news\/politics\/church-of-scotland-general-assembly-2022-kirk-says-ministers-can-conduct-same-sex-marriages-3705108\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Church of Scotland has voted to allow parish ministers and deacons to marry same-sex couples if they wish. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/66DqgXsTDq\">https:\/\/t.co\/66DqgXsTDq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Scotsman (@TheScotsman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheScotsman\/status\/1528746332449538049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 23, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The General Assembly voted by 274 to 136 to approve a change in church law to allow the move, but ministers who do not want to conduct such weddings will not have to. Read it all. The Church of Scotland<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=112459\">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":[576,444,175,199,168,98,184,417,108,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-scotland-england-uk","category-anthropology","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-parish-ministry","category-presbyterian","category-religion-culture","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112459","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=112459"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112462,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112459\/revisions\/112462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}