{"id":31251,"date":"2012-03-08T18:28:29","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T18:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_london_times_article_on_the_previous_article-new_dean_pledges_to_bless_g\/"},"modified":"2012-03-08T18:28:29","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T18:28:29","slug":"a_london_times_article_on_the_previous_article-new_dean_pledges_to_bless_g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31251","title":{"rendered":"A ([London] Times) Article on the previous article&#8211;New Dean pledges to bless gay unions in St Pauls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new Dean of St Paul\u2019s Cathedral has spoken in support of gay marriage in a move that threatens to deepen divisions within the Church of England.<\/p>\n<p>Dr David Ison, 57, said that the virtues of marriage should be available to gays, adding that it was better to talk of \u201cChristian marriage\u201d\u009d rather than homosexual or heterosexual unions. He admitted that he had conducted ceremonies for homosexuals after civil partnerships, even though formal blessing services for gays are banned by the Church and no liturgy has been authorised.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/faith\/article3344393.ece\">Read it all<\/a> (requires subscription).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Dean of St Paul\u2019s Cathedral has spoken in support of gay marriage in a move that threatens to deepen divisions within the Church of England. Dr David Ison, 57, said that the virtues of marriage should be available<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31251\">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":[36,48,39,50,576,74,101,389,579,199,114,183,98,435,184,108,514,112,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anglican-provinces","category-children","category-church-of-england-coe","category-churchstate-matters","category-england-uk","category-law-legal-issues","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-marriage-family","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31251","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=31251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}