{"id":11642,"date":"2009-03-10T17:30:29","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T17:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/times_colonist_fairfield_anglicans_vote_to_split\/"},"modified":"2009-03-10T17:30:29","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T17:30:29","slug":"times_colonist_fairfield_anglicans_vote_to_split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11642","title":{"rendered":"Times Colonist: Fairfield Anglicans vote to split"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The congregation at St. Matthias Anglican Church in Fairfield voted overwhelmingly Sunday to leave the Anglican Church of Canada, the latest sign of division among parishes across the country over controversial church doctrines like blessing same-sex marriages.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 180 people who voted, 94.5 per cent said they want to join the Anglican Network of Canada, a conservative body that opposes same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n<p>About 30 people refused to participate in the vote and wrote letters opposing the split, said church spokesman Michael Skinner, who chaired the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>But another 20 parishioners who could not attend in person wrote letters of support, he said. The congregation had been just over 200 people.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timescolonist.com\/Life\/Fairfield+Anglicans+vote+split\/1368335\/story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The congregation at St. Matthias Anglican Church in Fairfield voted overwhelmingly Sunday to leave the Anglican Church of Canada, the latest sign of division among parishes across the country over controversial church doctrines like blessing same-sex marriages. Of the 180<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11642\">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":[36,388,74,514,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-church-of-canada","category-anglican-provinces","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11642","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=11642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}