{"id":24648,"date":"2011-02-20T18:30:30","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T18:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cen_no_action_on_same_sex_blessings_in_southern_africa\/"},"modified":"2011-02-20T18:30:30","modified_gmt":"2011-02-20T18:30:30","slug":"cen_no_action_on_same_sex_blessings_in_southern_africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24648","title":{"rendered":"(CEN) No action on same sex blessings Among Anglican Bishops in Southern Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meeting from Feb 7-12 at the Mariannhill Conference Centre in the Diocese of Natal, the bishops released a pastoral letter at the close of their meeting confirming they were at an impasse.<\/p>\n<p>They noted that Archbishop Thabo Makgoba had \u201ctaken a lead in bringing concerns to us from the dioceses in the Western Cape with regard to the pastoral care of persons who have entered into civil unions or are considering doing so.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>However, they noted this was \u201cnot a matter of legitimising same-sex unions but of care for worshippers who are already in them,\u201d\u009d the bishops said, adding that \u201cour Church does not consider any relationship to be marriage unless it is the historic relationship of a man and a woman uniting, ideally for life.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/geoconger.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/20\/no-action-on-gay-blessings-in-southern-africa-the-church-of-england-newspaper-feb-18-2011-p-8\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meeting from Feb 7-12 at the Mariannhill Conference Centre in the Diocese of Natal, the bishops released a pastoral letter at the close of their meeting confirming they were at an impasse. They noted that Archbishop Thabo Makgoba had \u201ctaken<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24648\">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":[36,406,74,514,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-church-of-southern-africa","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\/24648","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=24648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}