{"id":16742,"date":"2009-12-17T04:27:53","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T04:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/kingsley_smith_anglican_objections_have_no_bearing_on_canon_mary_glasspool\/"},"modified":"2009-12-17T04:27:53","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T04:27:53","slug":"kingsley_smith_anglican_objections_have_no_bearing_on_canon_mary_glasspool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16742","title":{"rendered":"Kingsley Smith: Anglican objections have no bearing on Canon Mary  Glasspool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What many people do not know, and others, I&#8217;m afraid, choose to ignore, is the legal independence of the Episcopal Church from other jurisdictions. In fact, it was in Chestertown, Maryland, in 1780, that a convention of clergy and laymen began the process of making an American Church separate from the Church of England, in the spirit of our declaration of political independence of 1776.<\/p>\n<p>After that, the Archbishop of Canterbury had no more legal jurisdiction in this nation than King George III, the &#8220;Supreme Governor&#8221; of the established Church of England. So when Archbishop Rowan Williams says that he regrets Canon Glasspool&#8217;s election and urges the American church to reject her, he does not speak in any official capacity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/opinion\/readersrespond\/bal-glasspoolletter1216,0,7554368.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What many people do not know, and others, I&#8217;m afraid, choose to ignore, is the legal independence of the Episcopal Church from other jurisdictions. In fact, it was in Chestertown, Maryland, in 1780, that a convention of clergy and laymen<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16742\">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":[36,80,67,172,66,514,79,372,376,652,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-identity","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-ecclesiology","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-tec-bishops","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-conflicts-los-angeles","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16742","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=16742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}