{"id":12878,"date":"2009-05-18T17:41:52","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T17:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_episcopal_bishop_of_rochester_new_york_state_should_allow_same_sex_marr\/"},"modified":"2009-05-18T17:41:52","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T17:41:52","slug":"the_episcopal_bishop_of_rochester_new_york_state_should_allow_same_sex_marr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12878","title":{"rendered":"The Episcopal Bishop of Rochester, New York: State should allow same-sex marriages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marriage has a particular meaning for me as a clergy person.<\/p>\n<p>But as I see it, whether New York state should allow its civil, state-issued marriage licenses to go to same-sex couples is an entirely separate issue from whether marriages of same-sex couples will happen in a church.<\/p>\n<p>My faith teaches me that all people are children of God, deserving of love, dignity and equal treatment.<\/p>\n<p>When same-sex couples are treated as less than anyone else, it is my problem; my spiritual problem.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democratandchronicle.com\/article\/20090517\/OPINION02\/905170348\/1008\/OPINION\/Stateshouldallowsame-sexmarriages\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marriage has a particular meaning for me as a clergy person. But as I see it, whether New York state should allow its civil, state-issued marriage licenses to go to same-sex couples is an entirely separate issue from whether marriages<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12878\">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":[36,39,576,66,114,98,112,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-sexuality","category-tec-bishops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12878","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=12878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}