{"id":19841,"date":"2010-05-19T17:30:39","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T17:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cen-battle_over_american_seat_on_the_anglican_consultative_council_looms\/"},"modified":"2010-05-19T17:30:39","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T17:30:39","slug":"cen-battle_over_american_seat_on_the_anglican_consultative_council_looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19841","title":{"rendered":"CEN&#8211;Battle over American seat on the Anglican Consultative Council looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Asked whether he would have to step down from the ACC\u2019s Standing Committee due to his change in status from priest to bishop, Dr. [Ian] Douglas told CEN he would remain in place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cElection to the Standing Committee by the ACC is irrespective of orders.  Therefore, if I am elected the episcopal ACC member from TEC by the Executive Council in June, then I remain on the Standing Committee,\u201d\u009d he said.<\/p>\n<p>However conservatives have pushed for ACC chairman, Bishop James Tengatenga to replace Dr. Douglas, arguing that under the bylaws of the ACC a church cannot have two episcopal delegates.  They state that upon his consecration as a bishop, Dr. Douglas ceased to be a clerical member of the ACC.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religiousintelligence.org\/churchnewspaper\/news\/battle-over-american-seat-on-the-acc-looms\">Read it all (subscription to CEN needed to do so)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asked whether he would have to step down from the ACC\u2019s Standing Committee due to his change in status from priest to bishop, Dr. [Ian] Douglas told CEN he would remain in place. \u201cElection to the Standing Committee by the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19841\">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":[36,62,66,78,75,514,79,372,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-consultative-council","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-global-south-churches-primates","category-instruments-of-unity","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-tec-bishops","category-windsor-report-process"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19841","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=19841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}