{"id":30758,"date":"2012-02-09T17:45:11","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T17:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/reuters_chuch_of_england_takes_step_towards_allowing_women_bishops\/"},"modified":"2012-02-09T17:45:11","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T17:45:11","slug":"reuters_chuch_of_england_takes_step_towards_allowing_women_bishops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30758","title":{"rendered":"(Reuters) Chuch of England takes step towards allowing women bishops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England moved closer to the consecration of women bishops Wednesday when it voted against giving strengthened legal protection to traditionalists who favour an all-male clergy, a decision that could lead more to switch to Rome.<\/p>\n<p>The vote was the last chance for the church&#8217;s parliament, or synod, to influence the draft legislation in its long legislative process before it heads to the House of Bishops for consideration in May.<\/p>\n<p>The draft will return to synod in July for a final vote &#8211; 20 years after it voted in favour of women priests.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/02\/09\/uk-britain-religion-women-idUKTRE81725D20120209\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England moved closer to the consecration of women bishops Wednesday when it voted against giving strengthened legal protection to traditionalists who favour an all-male clergy, a decision that could lead more to switch to Rome. The vote<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30758\">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":[36,39,50,74,389,635,199,108,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-religion-culture","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30758","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=30758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}