{"id":124314,"date":"2023-11-02T08:03:10","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T12:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=124314"},"modified":"2023-11-02T18:27:02","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T22:27:02","slug":"church-times-dont-delay-guidance-allowing-priests-to-be-in-same-sex-marriages-say-44-bishops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=124314","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Don\u2019t delay guidance allowing priests to be in same-sex marriages, say 44 bishops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of 44 bishops made a public statement on Wednesday afternoon expressing their hope that pastoral guidance allowing priests to be in same-sex marriages would be issued \u201cwithout delay\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The statement in favour of reform follows three weeks after 12 bishops publicly dissented from a majority decision by the House of Bishops to commend prayers for same-sex couples&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The new group, 15 diocesan bishops and 29 suffragans, write that they \u201crecognise the complexities of the Pastoral Guidance in relation to ministry, and also the need for a swift end to the current uncertainty for LGBTQIA+ clergy and ordinands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe look forward to Guidance being issued without delay that includes the removal of all restrictions on clergy entering same-sex civil marriages, and on bishops\u2019 ordaining and licensing such clergy, as well as granting permissions to officiate.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2023\/3-november\/news\/uk\/don-t-delay-guidance-allowing-priests-to-be-in-same-sex-marriages-say-44-bishops\">Read it all<\/a> (registration or subscription).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Don\u2019t delay guidance allowing priests to be in same-sex marriages, say 44 bishops <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/81hu1fsLkH\">https:\/\/t.co\/81hu1fsLkH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Simon Sarmiento (@simonsarmiento) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/simonsarmiento\/status\/1719764470296150180?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 1, 2023<\/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>A group of 44 bishops made a public statement on Wednesday afternoon expressing their hope that pastoral guidance allowing priests to be in same-sex marriages would be issued \u201cwithout delay\u201d. The statement in favour of reform follows three weeks after<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=124314\">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":[576,175,389,635,168,184,177,108,514,112,79,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anthropology","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124314","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=124314"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124320,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124314\/revisions\/124320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}