{"id":118722,"date":"2023-02-14T17:04:26","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T22:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=118722"},"modified":"2023-02-14T19:07:11","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T00:07:11","slug":"the-church-at-a-crossroads-gafcon-and-the-church-of-uganda-just-say-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=118722","title":{"rendered":"The Church At A Crossroads: Gafcon And The Church Of Uganda Just Say \u201cno\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The Church is at a crossroads. Nothing illustrates that more than\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/anglican.ink\/2023\/02\/10\/statement-issued-by-the-archbishop-of-uganda-at-a-10-feb-2023-press-conference-following-the-vote-by-the-church-of-england-synod-to-permit-gay-blessings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Archbishop Steven Kaziimba\u2019s response<\/a>\u00a0on behalf of the Church of Uganda to the Church of England\u2019s decision to bless same-sex relationships. In short, the Church of Uganda says, \u201cJust say no.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Just say no to the leaders of the Church of England, including Archbishop Justin Welby and Archbishop of York, Stephen Cotrell, who tried to convince us there is a distinction between the blessing of a couple and the blessing of their relationship. As Archbishop Kaziimba says so clearly: if it looks like a wedding and sounds like a wedding, it is a wedding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Just say no to the Church of England\u2019s departure from the Bible and their new message, which is the opposite of the Bible. Instead of calling for repentance, it is blessing sin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Just say no to going down the suicidal path the Church of England has now taken in following the Episcopal Church by redefining biblical standards for human sexuality, marriage, and leadership in the Church.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/americananglican.org\/the-church-at-a-crossroads-gafcon-and-the-church-of-uganda-just-say-no\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church is at a crossroads. Nothing illustrates that more than\u00a0Archbishop Steven Kaziimba\u2019s response\u00a0on behalf of the Church of Uganda to the Church of England\u2019s decision to bless same-sex relationships. In short, the Church of Uganda says, \u201cJust say no.\u201d<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=118722\">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":[36,73,576,175,389,396,168,52,177,108,514,112,79,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-analysis","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anthropology","category-church-of-england-coe","category-church-of-uganda","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-gafcon","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118722","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=118722"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118726,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118722\/revisions\/118726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}