{"id":2534,"date":"2007-10-19T15:33:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-19T15:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/montral_anglicans_to_vote_on_whether_to_recommend_same_sex_blessings\/"},"modified":"2007-10-19T15:33:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-19T15:33:00","slug":"montral_anglicans_to_vote_on_whether_to_recommend_same_sex_blessings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=2534","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Anglicans to Vote on Whether to recommend Same Sex Blessings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Montreal branch of the Anglican Church will vote tonight on whether parishes in the diocese can formally bless same-sex civil unions, if they so choose.<\/p>\n<p>The vote, to take place at their annual meeting, or synod, comes a week after the Ottawa diocese voted 177-97 in favour of a similar motion.<\/p>\n<p>The result of the vote is only a recommendation. If Montreal Anglicans vote to follow their Ottawa brethren, Bishop Barry Clarke, head of the Montreal diocese, can choose to accept or reject their choice.<\/p>\n<p>This week, Clarke said he had not made up his mind about the controversial issue, but he would be listening to what the 240 voting clergy and laity at the synod have to say.<\/p>\n<p>The issue of homosexuality has ripped apart the worldwide Anglican community in recent years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/montrealgazette\/news\/story.html?id=ccbf4839-583c-419e-ba18-0e5982be1345\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Montreal branch of the Anglican Church will vote tonight on whether parishes in the diocese can formally bless same-sex civil unions, if they so choose. The vote, to take place at their annual meeting, or synod, comes a week<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=2534\">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-2534","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\/2534","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=2534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}