{"id":2378,"date":"2007-10-10T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-10T14:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/same_sex_unions_issue_divides_ottawa_diocese\/"},"modified":"2007-10-10T14:44:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-10T14:44:00","slug":"same_sex_unions_issue_divides_ottawa_diocese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=2378","title":{"rendered":"Same Sex Unions Issue Divides Ottawa Diocese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Elgin St. church might stop marrying straight couples if blessing same-sex unions isn&#8217;t endorsed at the Anglican Diocese of Ottawa&#8217;s annual synod in Cornwall later this week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we can&#8217;t marry everyone who comes to us in faithful union, we won&#8217;t marry anyone,&#8221; said Rev. Canon Garth Bulmer, who introduced a motion that Ottawa&#8217;s bishop allow clergy &#8220;whose conscience permits&#8221; to bless same-sex unions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If gay people cannot have equal access to the sacraments of St. John&#8217;s Church, we won&#8217;t do the sacrament of marriage. It&#8217;s a symbolic act which would be a gesture of solidarity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bulmer hasn&#8217;t yet decided to take that step but his church council has discussed it as controversy swirled around Canadian Anglicans and threatened to split the church.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ottsun.canoe.ca\/News\/OttawaAndRegion\/2007\/10\/10\/4563504-sun.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Elgin St. church might stop marrying straight couples if blessing same-sex unions isn&#8217;t endorsed at the Anglican Diocese of Ottawa&#8217;s annual synod in Cornwall later this week. &#8220;If we can&#8217;t marry everyone who comes to us in faithful union,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=2378\">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":[36,388,74,514,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-church-of-canada","category-anglican-provinces","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378","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=2378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}