{"id":113786,"date":"2022-07-12T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=113786"},"modified":"2022-07-12T09:26:59","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T13:26:59","slug":"church-times-government-must-legislate-to-protect-children-against-pornography-synod-resolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=113786","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Government must legislate to protect children against pornography, Synod resolves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Government must legislate to compel age verification on pornography websites to protect children, the General Synod has urged.<\/p>\n<p>In a debate on Monday night, prompted by a Guildford diocesan synod motion (News, 24 June), member after member rose to denounce pornography as degrading, exploitative, lascivious, and harmful.<\/p>\n<p>When the motion was put to the vote, it passed overwhelmingly, with just two votes against and three abstentions.<\/p>\n<p>Despite action being promised by David Cameron almost a decade ago, the Government has not yet brought in any regulation forcing porn providers to stop children accessing their services online&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2022\/15-july\/news\/uk\/government-must-legislate-to-protect-children-against-porn-synod-resolves\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government must legislate to compel age verification on pornography websites to protect children, the General Synod has urged. In a debate on Monday night, prompted by a Guildford diocesan synod motion (News, 24 June), member after member rose to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=113786\">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":[324,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england","category-pornography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113786","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=113786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113787,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113786\/revisions\/113787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}