{"id":19783,"date":"2010-05-17T00:09:58","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T00:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/reuters-u-s-_episcopal_church_consecrates_lesbian_bishop\/"},"modified":"2010-05-17T00:09:58","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T00:09:58","slug":"reuters-u-s-_episcopal_church_consecrates_lesbian_bishop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19783","title":{"rendered":"Reuters&#8211;U.S. Episcopal Church consecrates lesbian bishop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Episcopal diocese of Los Angeles ordained an openly lesbian bishop on Saturday, a move likely to stoke further tensions between liberals and conservatives in the deeply divided global Anglican Communion.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Douglas Glasspool is now a suffragan, or assistant, bishop in a liberal diocese on America&#8217;s famously tolerant West Coast, and she offered to meet with her critics as a &#8220;reconciling person&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Some 3,000 people attended the ceremony, said diocese spokesman Bob Williams. &#8220;The event was joyful and well attended,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE64F0CD20100516?feedType=RSS&#038;feedName=topNews\">Read the whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Episcopal diocese of Los Angeles ordained an openly lesbian bishop on Saturday, a move likely to stoke further tensions between liberals and conservatives in the deeply divided global Anglican Communion. Mary Douglas Glasspool is now a suffragan, or assistant,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19783\">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":[36,66,514,79,372,376,652],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19783","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-conflicts","category-tec-conflicts-los-angeles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19783","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=19783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}