{"id":19765,"date":"2010-05-15T21:04:50","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T21:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc-us_church_set_to_ordain_partnered_lesbian_bishop\/"},"modified":"2010-05-15T21:04:50","modified_gmt":"2010-05-15T21:04:50","slug":"bbc-us_church_set_to_ordain_partnered_lesbian_bishop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19765","title":{"rendered":"BBC&#8211;US Church set to ordain partnered lesbian bishop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The election of Mary Glasspool &#8211; who has been with her partner Becki for 22 years &#8211; represented a snub by the liberal Episcopal Church to other Anglican Churches around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams had urged the American Church not to proceed with the ordination, warning that it would further alienate traditionalists who believe active homosexuality to be a sin.<\/p>\n<p>It is likely to accelerate the gradual marginalisation of the Episcopal Church within a two-tier Communion and increase tensions between Anglicans elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/8684194.stm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The election of Mary Glasspool &#8211; who has been with her partner Becki for 22 years &#8211; represented a snub by the liberal Episcopal Church to other Anglican Churches around the world. Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams had urged the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19765\">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":[36,67,66,514,79,372,376,652],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19765","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=19765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}