{"id":2328,"date":"2007-10-07T14:53:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-07T14:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/from_the_tablet_episcopal_church_statement_still_unclear\/"},"modified":"2007-10-07T14:53:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-07T14:53:00","slug":"from_the_tablet_episcopal_church_statement_still_unclear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=2328","title":{"rendered":"From the Tablet: Episcopal Church statement \u201d\u02dcstill unclear\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetablet.co.uk\/pdfs\/1515\/bookmarks\/#pagemode=bookmarks\">From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Conservative Anglicans have condemned a statement by the bishops of the Episcopal Church (TEC) last week, which they claim failed to clarify the US Church\u2019s views on homosexuality, writes Timothy Lavin.<\/p>\n<p>Primates of the Anglican Communion at a meeting in February demanded that the leaders of TEC, Anglicanism\u2019s American wing, vow not to consecrate non-celibate gay bishops or approve an official blessing for gay unions. The American bishops, meeting in New Orleans last month to discuss the issue, said that they would continue to \u201cexercise restraint\u201d\u009d when naming bishops and would not approve a blessing for same-sex unions. But their statement fell far short of what many in the Anglican leadership had wanted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was our expressed desire to provide one final opportunity for an unequivocal assurance from the Episcopal Church of their commitment to the mind and teaching of the Communion,\u201d\u009d said Peter Akinola, the Anglican Archbishop of Nigeria and a prominent conservative. \u201cWe also made clear that it is a time for clarity and a rejection of what hitherto has been an endless series of ambiguous and misleading statements. Sadly it seems that<br \/>\nour hopes were not well founded.\u201d\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: Conservative Anglicans have condemned a statement by the bishops of the Episcopal Church (TEC) last week, which they claim failed to clarify the US Church\u2019s views on homosexuality, writes Timothy Lavin. Primates of the Anglican Communion at a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=2328\">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":[36,66,630,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-sept07-hob-meeting","category-tec-bishops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328","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=2328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}