{"id":17722,"date":"2010-02-04T20:00:31","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T20:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/anglican_church_in_south_africa_criticises_promiscuity\/"},"modified":"2010-02-04T20:00:31","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T20:00:31","slug":"anglican_church_in_south_africa_criticises_promiscuity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17722","title":{"rendered":"Anglican Church in South Africa criticises promiscuity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Promiscuity, unfaithfulness and unprotected sex are an offence against the sanctity of life, according to the head of the Anglican Church in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Archbishop Thabo Makgoba made the remarks in a &#8220;moral state of the nation address&#8221; delivered at an interfaith function in Johannesburg on Wednesday night, and released on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Although he did not mention President Jacob Zuma, his comments come amid controversy over the news that Zuma has fathered his 20th child with a woman who is not one of his wives.<\/p>\n<p>Makgoba said it would be easy just to preach &#8220;no sex outside marriage&#8221;, which was what Christians and others upheld because it made for strong families and healthy societies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/index.php?set_id=1&#038;click_id=13&#038;art_id=nw20100204124803663C219226\">Read the whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Promiscuity, unfaithfulness and unprotected sex are an offence against the sanctity of life, according to the head of the Anglican Church in South Africa. Archbishop Thabo Makgoba made the remarks in a &#8220;moral state of the nation address&#8221; delivered at<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17722\">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":[36,39,406,74,168,112,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-anglican-church-of-southern-africa","category-anglican-provinces","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-sexuality","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17722","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=17722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}