{"id":2397,"date":"2007-10-11T15:18:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-11T15:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/albany_bishop_wants_unity_amid_discord\/"},"modified":"2007-10-11T15:18:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-11T15:18:00","slug":"albany_bishop_wants_unity_amid_discord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=2397","title":{"rendered":"Albany Bishop wants unity amid discord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop William Love has broken his public silence on the latest national Episcopal drama with both a call for unity and a strong reaffirmation of his conservative views.<\/p>\n<p>Love, back from a high-stakes meeting of the country&#8217;s Episcopal bishops, reiterated in a letter to local priests Tuesday that he won&#8217;t allow the blessing of same-sex unions &#8212; public or private &#8212; in the 19-county Albany diocese. He also won&#8217;t ordain gay deacons or priests.<\/p>\n<p>And he argued that the church should keep its troubles from spilling out of the pews and into courtrooms, where several dioceses have found themselves in messy property disputes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/AspStories\/story.asp?storyID=629095&#038;category=REGION&#038;newsdate=10\/11\/2007\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop William Love has broken his public silence on the latest national Episcopal drama with both a call for unity and a strong reaffirmation of his conservative views. Love, back from a high-stakes meeting of the country&#8217;s Episcopal bishops, reiterated<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=2397\">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":[36,66,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-tec-bishops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397","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=2397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}