{"id":14117,"date":"2009-07-26T22:29:11","date_gmt":"2009-07-26T22:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/in_michigan_local_deputy_to_general_convention_supports_decision_to_allow_b\/"},"modified":"2009-07-26T22:29:11","modified_gmt":"2009-07-26T22:29:11","slug":"in_michigan_local_deputy_to_general_convention_supports_decision_to_allow_b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=14117","title":{"rendered":"In Michigan Local Deputy to General Convention supports decision to allow blessing of gay unions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After attending the Episcopal Church&#8217;s general convention in California last week, a local delegate says she supported the decision to allow the blessings of same-sex unions, noting the inclusive atmosphere in which the decision was made.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Adams, rector at Grace Church in Holland, said the voting body made a sincere effort to listen across lines, honor the breadth of opinions and remain unified.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t pretend that everything is done,&#8221; she said, &#8220;but the decisions allow us to move forward and beyond, and won&#8217;t allow this particular issue to have the power it does.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/living\/grand-rapids\/index.ssf\/2009\/07\/local_delegate_to_episcopal_ch.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After attending the Episcopal Church&#8217;s general convention in California last week, a local delegate says she supported the decision to allow the blessings of same-sex unions, noting the inclusive atmosphere in which the decision was made. Jennifer Adams, rector at<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=14117\">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-14117","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\/14117","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=14117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}