{"id":124576,"date":"2023-11-15T17:50:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T22:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=124576"},"modified":"2023-11-15T17:53:50","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T22:53:50","slug":"church-times-general-synod-agrees-to-trial-services-for-same-sex-couples-after-marathon-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=124576","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) General Synod agrees to trial services for same-sex couples after marathon debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stand-alone services of blessing for same-sex couples are to go ahead in trial form, after an amendment was made \u2014 by a narrow vote \u2014 to the main motion being debated by the General Synod.<\/p>\n<p>The final motion was carried on Wednesday afternoon in all three Houses: Bishops 23-10, Clergy 100-93, and Laity 104-100.<\/p>\n<p>The motion stated that the Synod \u201crecognise the progress made by the House of Bishops towards implementing the motion on Living in Love and Faith (LLF) in February 2023 . . . and encourage the House to continue its work of implementation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The margins in the final vote were tighter than they had been in February\u2019s vote on the original proposals&#8230;, in the House of Bishops as in the others: nine months ago, only four bishops voted against.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2023\/17-november\/news\/uk\/general-synod-agrees-to-trial-services-for-same-sex-couples-after-marathon-debate\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Stand-alone services of blessing for same-sex couples are to go ahead in trial form, after an amendment was made \u2014 by a narrow vote \u2014 to the main motion being debated by the General Synod.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/q3vLOH8NmF\">https:\/\/t.co\/q3vLOH8NmF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Church Times (@ChurchTimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChurchTimes\/status\/1724863407315198249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 15, 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>Stand-alone services of blessing for same-sex couples are to go ahead in trial form, after an amendment was made \u2014 by a narrow vote \u2014 to the main motion being debated by the General Synod. The final motion was carried<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=124576\">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":[576,175,389,635,168,184,108,514,112,79,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124576","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-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\/124576","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=124576"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124579,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124576\/revisions\/124579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}