{"id":14221,"date":"2009-08-01T21:00:15","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T21:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/douglas_todd_vancouver_sun_homosexuality_religion_and_acceptance\/"},"modified":"2009-08-01T21:00:15","modified_gmt":"2009-08-01T21:00:15","slug":"douglas_todd_vancouver_sun_homosexuality_religion_and_acceptance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=14221","title":{"rendered":"Douglas Todd (Vancouver Sun): Homosexuality, religion and acceptance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The polls by the Pew Forum for Religion and Public Life provided crucial background to why North American Anglicans have been among those leading the cause for homosexual rights &#8212; and why they&#8217;re at loggerheads with evangelicals. The Pew Forum polls also helped explain the headline-making vote last week by a solid majority of Episcopalians (as Anglicans are known in the U.S.) to formally allow the ordination of homosexuals.<\/p>\n<p>The issue had been disturbing some of the world&#8217;s 75 million Anglicans since 2003, when openly gay cleric Gene Robinson was elected the Episcopal bishop of New Hampshire.<\/p>\n<p>The Pew Forum found seven out of 10 U.S. Episcopalians\/Anglicans believe society should accept homosexuality as a way of life.<\/p>\n<p>That compares to only 50 per cent support among the general U.S. population.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouversun.com\/life\/Homosexuality+religion+acceptance\/1851879\/story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The polls by the Pew Forum for Religion and Public Life provided crucial background to why North American Anglicans have been among those leading the cause for homosexual rights &#8212; and why they&#8217;re at loggerheads with evangelicals. The Pew Forum<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=14221\">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":[36,39,50,42,209,388,74,207,66,419,378,154,108,514,79,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-anglican-church-of-canada","category-anglican-provinces","category-canada","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-evangelicals","category-general-convention","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-sexuality-debate-other-denominations-and-faiths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14221","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=14221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}