{"id":24636,"date":"2011-02-20T00:22:24","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T00:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nigeria_anglicans_re-affirm_stand_on_gay_marriages\/"},"modified":"2011-02-20T00:22:24","modified_gmt":"2011-02-20T00:22:24","slug":"nigeria_anglicans_re-affirm_stand_on_gay_marriages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24636","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Anglicans Re-Affirm Stand On Gay Marriages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE Primate of Anglican Communion in Nigeria, The Most Rev. Nicholas Okoh, said that the communion remained \u201cstrongly\u2019 opposed to homosexuality and gay marriages in church. Okoh said this when he led a delegation of four Bishops to the Nigerian High Commission in London.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have not repented from our initial stand; we remain strongly opposed to homosexuality and other anti-Christ like life in the Communion,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that though the relationship between the Church of Nigeria and the Church of England was cordial, there was still disagreement on the same sex marriage issue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nigerianobservernews.com\/19022011\/weekendobserver\/news\/8.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE Primate of Anglican Communion in Nigeria, The Most Rev. Nicholas Okoh, said that the communion remained \u201cstrongly\u2019 opposed to homosexuality and gay marriages in church. Okoh said this when he led a delegation of four Bishops to the Nigerian<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24636\">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":[36,50,74,390,199,66,78,514,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-nigeria","category-england-uk","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-global-south-churches-primates","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24636","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=24636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}