{"id":28712,"date":"2011-10-11T17:25:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T17:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_london_times_article_on_kevin_holdsworths_sermon-catholic_views_unpleasa\/"},"modified":"2011-10-11T17:25:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T17:25:00","slug":"a_london_times_article_on_kevin_holdsworths_sermon-catholic_views_unpleasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28712","title":{"rendered":"A (London) Times article on Kelvin Holdsworth&#39;s Sermon&#8211;Catholic views \u201d\u02dcunpleasant\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A leading cleric has launched a withering attack on the Catholic leaders of a campaign against gay marriage, labelling them \u201cout of touch, arrogant, conceited and rude\u201d\u009d and warning that they risk damaging the reputation of the wider Christian community.<\/p>\n<p>In a sermon that exposed the gap between liberal and traditional opinion, the Very Reverend Kelvin Holdsworth, Provost of the Episcopal Cathedral Church of St Mary the Virgin, Glasgow, called the views of senior Catholics on gay marriage \u201cunpleasant and ill-judged\u201d\u009d. They \u201cembarrassed\u201d\u009d him.<\/p>\n<p>[The] Rev Holdsworth was preaching a month after the Scottish government launched its consultation on same-sex marriages. Nicola Sturgeon, Deputy First Minister, said that the Government tended towards the opinion that they should be introduced.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/news\/uk\/scotland\/article3189033.ece\">Read it all (requires subscription)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A leading cleric has launched a withering attack on the Catholic leaders of a campaign against gay marriage, labelling them \u201cout of touch, arrogant, conceited and rude\u201d\u009d and warning that they risk damaging the reputation of the wider Christian community.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28712\">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":[36,48,50,42,74,199,168,435,154,184,177,439,364,326,398,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-preaching-homiletics","category-roman-catholic","category-scotland","category-scottish-episcopal-church","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28712","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=28712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}