{"id":24619,"date":"2011-02-18T17:10:51","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T17:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_times-civil_partnerships_will_not_be_forced_on_church_says_theresa_\/"},"modified":"2011-02-18T17:10:51","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T17:10:51","slug":"church_times-civil_partnerships_will_not_be_forced_on_church_says_theresa_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24619","title":{"rendered":"Church Times&#8211;Civil partnerships will not be forced on Church, says Theresa May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Government announced this week that it plans to allow religious buildings to be used to host the registration of civil partnerships for same-sex couples.<\/p>\n<p>The proposals, from the Govern\u00c2\u00adment Equalities Office (GEO), emphasised that any changes would be \u201centirely voluntary\u201d\u009d, and would not \u201cforce any religious group to host civil partnership registrations if they do not wish to do so\u201d\u009d.<br \/>\nBut the announcement received mixed reactions from Churches. The Church of England warned that such changes could lead to \u201cinconsist\u00c2\u00adencies with civil marriage, have unex\u00c2\u00adplored impacts, and lead to confu\u00c2\u00adsion\u201d\u009d. The Bishops had \u201cconsistent\u00c2\u00adly been clear that the Church of En\u00c2\u00adgland should not provide services of blessing for those who register civil partnerships\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/content.asp?id=108237\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government announced this week that it plans to allow religious buildings to be used to host the registration of civil partnerships for same-sex couples. The proposals, from the Govern\u00c2\u00adment Equalities Office (GEO), emphasised that any changes would be \u201centirely<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24619\">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":[36,39,40,50,576,74,389,199,114,98,151,108,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24619","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=24619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}