{"id":28324,"date":"2011-09-19T17:28:26","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T17:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/western_mail_church_in_wales_looks_at_pension_rights_for_clerics_partners\/"},"modified":"2011-09-19T17:28:26","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T17:28:26","slug":"western_mail_church_in_wales_looks_at_pension_rights_for_clerics_partners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28324","title":{"rendered":"(Western Mail) Church in Wales looks at pension rights for clerics\u2019 partners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church in Wales will next week consider taking a further step towards equality for gay clerics by providing improved pension rights for their civil partners.<\/p>\n<p>But progressive elements in the Church remain uneasy that while there is an acceptance that priests can have a monogamous sexual relationship, the same tolerance does not extend to Bishops.<\/p>\n<p>During a two-day meeting starting on Wednesday of the Church\u2019s Governing Body, it will be recommended that surviving civil partners of retired clerics should receive a pension based on the priest\u2019s entire working life. Until now, the rate of pension has only been calculated from 2005, when civil partnerships were first allowed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/news\/welsh-politics\/welsh-politics-news\/2011\/09\/16\/church-in-wales-looks-at-pension-rights-for-clerics-partners-91466-29431789\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church in Wales will next week consider taking a further step towards equality for gay clerics by providing improved pension rights for their civil partners. But progressive elements in the Church remain uneasy that while there is an acceptance<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28324\">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":[36,48,39,40,576,74,405,149,435,184,662,593,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-wales","category-economy","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-pensions","category-personal-finance","category-sexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28324","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=28324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}