{"id":29250,"date":"2011-11-10T19:05:54","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T19:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/anglican_churchs_peter_catt_backs_civil_same_sex_unions_at_queensland_parli\/"},"modified":"2011-11-10T19:05:54","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T19:05:54","slug":"anglican_churchs_peter_catt_backs_civil_same_sex_unions_at_queensland_parli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29250","title":{"rendered":"Anglican Church&#39;s Peter Catt backs civil same sex unions at Queensland Parliamentary Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Anglican Church of Australia&#8217;s Very Reverend Peter Catt says a same-sex marriage Bill would not deny or denigrate the legitimacy of marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the parliamentary hearing on same-sex marriage on behalf of the church&#8217;s social responsibilities committee, Dr Catt said civil unions instead extended the liberties of same or opposite-sex couples.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I really don&#8217;t see that this impinges on marriage at all,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.couriermail.com.au\/news\/queensland\/gay-couples-against-queensland-bid-to-recognise-civil-unions-says-australian-christian-lobby\/story-e6freoof-1226191089694\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Anglican Church of Australia&#8217;s Very Reverend Peter Catt says a same-sex marriage Bill would not deny or denigrate the legitimacy of marriage. Addressing the parliamentary hearing on same-sex marriage on behalf of the church&#8217;s social responsibilities committee, Dr Catt<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29250\">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":[36,39,40,50,576,395,74,204,114,98,151,108,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anglican-church-of-australia","category-anglican-provinces","category-australia-nz","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29250","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=29250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}