{"id":16051,"date":"2009-11-11T19:30:11","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T19:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/columbus_dispatch_area_episcopal_churches_to_bless_same-sex_unions\/"},"modified":"2009-11-11T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T19:30:11","slug":"columbus_dispatch_area_episcopal_churches_to_bless_same-sex_unions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16051","title":{"rendered":"Columbus Dispatch: Area Episcopal churches to bless same-sex unions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gay Episcopalians in central and southern Ohio can have their relationships blessed in church starting on Easter next year.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Thomas E. Breidenthal announced at the annual convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio on Friday that he would lift the prohibition on blessing same-sex unions.<\/p>\n<p>The diocese includes Columbus and the lower half of the state, a territory of about 25,000 Episcopalians in more than 80 churches.<\/p>\n<p>To allay the fears of some conservatives, Breidenthal added that no priest will be required to perform a same-sex blessing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/live\/content\/local_news\/stories\/2009\/11\/11\/episgay.ART_ART_11-11-09_A6_91FKV8I.html?sid=101\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gay Episcopalians in central and southern Ohio can have their relationships blessed in church starting on Easter next year. Bishop Thomas E. Breidenthal announced at the annual convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio on Friday that he would<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16051\">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":[36,66,514,79,372,379],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-tec-bishops","category-tec-diocesan-conventionsdiocesan-councils"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16051","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=16051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}