{"id":2156,"date":"2007-09-27T01:32:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-27T01:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/gay_bishop_move_rejected_by_kenya\/"},"modified":"2007-09-27T01:32:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-27T01:32:00","slug":"gay_bishop_move_rejected_by_kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=2156","title":{"rendered":"Gay bishop move rejected by Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kenyan archbishop said the US church leaders&#8217; comments did not go far enough.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we expected to come from them is to repent &#8211; that this is a sin in the eyes of the Lord and repentance is what me, in particular, and others expected to hear coming from this church,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Correspondents say it was hoped the agreement would help defuse the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>But Assistant Bishop of Kampala, Ugandan David Zac Niringiye, says it was &#8220;not a change of heart&#8221; and showed the church was already split.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What this situation has brought to the fore is the malaise &#8211; something much deeper &#8211; that the entire communion has not dealt with and the consecration of Bishop Gene really brought to the surface something that was there,&#8221; he told the BBC&#8217;s Focus on Africa programme<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/7014907.stm\" title=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/7014907.stm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kenyan archbishop said the US church leaders&#8217; comments did not go far enough. &#8220;What we expected to come from them is to repent &#8211; that this is a sin in the eyes of the Lord and repentance is what<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=2156\">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":[36,65,367,400,74,66,630,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-primary-source","category-statements-letters-primates","category-anglican-church-of-kenya","category-anglican-provinces","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-sept07-hob-meeting","category-tec-bishops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156","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=2156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}