{"id":28271,"date":"2011-09-16T17:00:02","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T17:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cen_first_clergy_same-sex_union_for_ireland\/"},"modified":"2011-09-16T17:00:02","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T17:00:02","slug":"cen_first_clergy_same-sex_union_for_ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28271","title":{"rendered":"(CEN) First clergy same-sex union for Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dean of Leighlin Cathedral in the Diocese of Cashel &#038; Ossory has become the first serving Church of Ireland clergyman to enter a same-sex civil partnership in the Republic of Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>The public announcement of the Dean\u2019s same-sex civil partnership and his Bishop\u2019s apparent support for the move is likely to pitch the Church of Ireland into the same battle that has torn apart the Episcopal Church and has the potential to divide the Irish church, sources tell CEN.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with BBC Ulster, the Very Rev Tom Gordon stated he and his partner held the ceremony in a registry office in July. Unlike the Church of England, which requires clergy who have entered same-sex civil partnerships to remain celibate, the Church of Ireland has not taken a position on the matter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/geoconger.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/15\/first-clergy-same-sex-union-for-ireland-the-church-of-england-newspaper-sept-9-2011-p-7\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dean of Leighlin Cathedral in the Diocese of Cashel &#038; Ossory has become the first serving Church of Ireland clergyman to enter a same-sex civil partnership in the Republic of Ireland. The public announcement of the Dean\u2019s same-sex civil<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28271\">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":[36,39,576,74,175,409,168,114,108,514,112,79,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anglican-provinces","category-anthropology","category-church-of-ireland","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-religion-culture","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28271","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=28271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}