{"id":27990,"date":"2011-08-31T16:56:48","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T16:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_married_lesbian_priest_is_among_five_nominees_to_become_the_next_episcopa\/"},"modified":"2011-08-31T16:56:48","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T16:56:48","slug":"a_married_lesbian_priest_is_among_five_nominees_to_become_the_next_episcopa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27990","title":{"rendered":"A Married Lesbian priest is among five nominees to become the next Episcopal Bishop of New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Diocese of New York, which includes the Lower Hudson Valley, is generally quite liberal and very open to gays and lesbians at all levels. But there has been some tension over whether gay couples can be married by priests.<\/p>\n<p>[Bishop Mark] Sisk supported the passage of civil gay marriage by the state Legislature and has been very supportive of gays in church life. But he does not believe that church law has empowered priests to perform marriages for same-sex couples.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement this past June, he said that clergy can offer a blessing for a gay couple that has entered into a civil marriage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lohud.com\/article\/20110830\/NEWS01\/108300324\/A-married-lesbian-priest-among-five-nominees-become-next-Episcopal-bishop-New-York?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|News\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Diocese of New York, which includes the Lower Hudson Valley, is generally quite liberal and very open to gays and lesbians at all levels. But there has been some tension over whether gay couples can be married by priests.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27990\">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":[36,39,576,66,168,114,98,514,112,79,372,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-tec-bishops","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27990","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=27990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}