{"id":30660,"date":"2012-02-04T20:05:50","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T20:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/episcopal_bishop_of_olympia_predicts_same_sex_marriage_approval_at_upcoming\/"},"modified":"2012-02-04T20:05:50","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T20:05:50","slug":"episcopal_bishop_of_olympia_predicts_same_sex_marriage_approval_at_upcoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30660","title":{"rendered":"Episcopal Bishop of Olympia Predicts Same Sex Marriage Approval at upcoming General Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Episcopal bishop in Western Washington, in sharp disagreement with Catholic prelates, believes that same-sex marriage is &#8220;a conservative proposal&#8221; that should be adopted &#8220;not only in our society but in our church.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It seems to me we have held our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters in a Catch-22,&#8221; the Rt. Rev. Greg Rickel, Episcopal bishop of the Diocese of Olympia, argues in a blog post published without fanfare to the diocesan website&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.komonews.com\/news\/local\/Local-bishop-supports-same-sex-marriage-138697969.html\">Read it all<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/bishoprickel.wordpress.com\/2012\/02\/01\/marriage-equality-a-conservative-proposal-2\">take the time to read the bishop&#8217;s blog post<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Episcopal bishop in Western Washington, in sharp disagreement with Catholic prelates, believes that same-sex marriage is &#8220;a conservative proposal&#8221; that should be adopted &#8220;not only in our society but in our church.&#8221; &#8220;It seems to me we have held<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30660\">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":[36,39,40,576,66,378,114,98,151,108,514,112,79,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-general-convention","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-tec-bishops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30660","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=30660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}