{"id":28754,"date":"2011-10-14T15:00:01","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/scottish_episcopal_church_considers_changing_stance_on_same_sex_marriages\/"},"modified":"2011-10-14T15:00:01","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T15:00:01","slug":"scottish_episcopal_church_considers_changing_stance_on_same_sex_marriages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28754","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Episcopal Church considers changing stance on same sex marriages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The head of Scotland\u2019s Episcopal Church has launched a veiled attack on the opposition from senior Catholics to same-sex marriage, claiming it raises \u201csignificant issues\u201d\u009d about the \u201crelationship between church and state\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>In an intervention that shows the deepening split in Scotland\u2019s faith communities over the issue, the Most Rev David Chillingworth, Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, defends the SNP government\u2019s \u201cright\u201d\u009d to give full legal status to gay wedding ceremonies.<\/p>\n<p>Writing in The Scotsman today, Rev Chillingworth, who is also the Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, hints that his church may \u201cconsider changing our canonical definition of marriage\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotsman.com\/news\/politics\/episcopal_church_considers_changing_stance_on_gay_marriages_1_1906017\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of Scotland\u2019s Episcopal Church has launched a veiled attack on the opposition from senior Catholics to same-sex marriage, claiming it raises \u201csignificant issues\u201d\u009d about the \u201crelationship between church and state\u201d\u009d. In an intervention that shows the deepening split<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28754\">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":[36,39,50,576,74,175,199,168,114,98,108,326,398,112,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anglican-provinces","category-anthropology","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-religion-culture","category-scotland","category-scottish-episcopal-church","category-sexuality","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28754","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=28754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}