{"id":30607,"date":"2012-02-01T17:15:56","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T17:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bill_carmichael_on_the_house_of_lords_practise_what_you_preach_bishops\/"},"modified":"2012-02-01T17:15:56","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T17:15:56","slug":"bill_carmichael_on_the_house_of_lords_practise_what_you_preach_bishops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30607","title":{"rendered":"(Yorkshire Post) Bill Carmichael on the House of Lords: Practise what you preach, Bishop(s)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the House of Lords this week, the Bishop of Ripon and Leeds, John Packer, led a revolt by senior clergy against the Government\u2019s welfare reforms, arguing that an annual cap on benefits of \u00c2\u00a326,000 is unfair and un-Christian.<\/p>\n<p>Fine, but if we take Bishop Packer and his fellow bishops at their word over what constitutes a fair income, there are going to have to be some enormous pay rises in the Church of England.<\/p>\n<p>It would be fascinating for example to listen to the bishops explain to their curates \u201d\u201c paid about \u00c2\u00a316,000 a year regardless of the number of dependent children \u201d\u201c why they have a duty to support through their taxes a benefit claimant pulling in the pre-tax equivalent of \u00c2\u00a335,000.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yorkshirepost.co.uk\/news\/debate\/columnists\/bill_carmichael_practise_what_you_preach_1_4188675\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the House of Lords this week, the Bishop of Ripon and Leeds, John Packer, led a revolt by senior clergy against the Government\u2019s welfare reforms, arguing that an annual cap on benefits of \u00c2\u00a326,000 is unfair and un-Christian. Fine,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30607\">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":[36,39,40,50,74,389,635,149,199,168,593,151,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-economy","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-personal-finance","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30607","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=30607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}