{"id":19669,"date":"2010-05-10T17:01:12","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T17:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/new_zealand_general_synod-covenant_section_seen_as_punitive_and_unanglican\/"},"modified":"2010-05-10T17:01:12","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T17:01:12","slug":"new_zealand_general_synod-covenant_section_seen_as_punitive_and_unanglican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19669","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand General Synod&#8211;Covenant section seen as &#39;punitive and unAnglican&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPunitive, controlling and completely un-Anglican\u201d\u009d \u201d\u201c that\u2019s how Dr Tony Fitchett sees Section 4 of the proposed Covenant.<\/p>\n<p>But even if General Synod were of a mind to toss that section out, holus bolus, now is not the time to do that, he suggested.<\/p>\n<p>While there\u2019s a feeling that the Covenant has been \u201cdone to death\u201d\u009d and General Synod had the power, making that decision was important enough to warrant using the same mechanisms used for changing the constitution, for example.<\/p>\n<p>He said there\u2019d long been pressure for an instant decision.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/anglicantaonga.org.nz\/Features\/Our-heritage\/fitchett\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPunitive, controlling and completely un-Anglican\u201d\u009d \u201d\u201c that\u2019s how Dr Tony Fitchett sees Section 4 of the proposed Covenant. But even if General Synod were of a mind to toss that section out, holus bolus, now is not the time to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19669\">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":[36,399,76,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-church-in-aotearoa-new-zealand-and-polynesia","category-anglican-covenant","category-anglican-provinces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19669","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=19669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}