{"id":13745,"date":"2009-07-07T14:00:39","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T14:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/washington_times_same_sex_ssues_atop_episcopalians_agenda\/"},"modified":"2009-07-07T14:00:39","modified_gmt":"2009-07-07T14:00:39","slug":"washington_times_same_sex_ssues_atop_episcopalians_agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13745","title":{"rendered":"Washington Times: Same Sex Issues atop Episcopalians&#39; agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blessings of same-sex marriage and removal of an informal ban on gay bishops are expected to be the top items at the upcoming 10-day meeting of the Episcopal General Convention, which starts Wednesday in Anaheim, Calif.<\/p>\n<p>Since the 2006 General Convention in Columbus, Ohio, the number of states that have legalized same-sex marriage has increased to six.<\/p>\n<p>Bishops from those six states &#8211; Vermont, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, Iowa and Connecticut &#8211; have put forth a resolution asking a &#8220;generous and flexible response&#8221; to same-sex couples seeking to be wed in these states, according to Religion News Service.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtontimes.com\/news\/2009\/jul\/07\/gay-issues-atop-episcopalians-agenda\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blessings of same-sex marriage and removal of an informal ban on gay bishops are expected to be the top items at the upcoming 10-day meeting of the Episcopal General Convention, which starts Wednesday in Anaheim, Calif. Since the 2006 General<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13745\">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":[36,66,378,514,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-general-convention","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13745","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=13745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}