{"id":31306,"date":"2012-03-11T23:18:50","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T23:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/sunday_london_times_catholics_step_up_attack_on_same-sex_marriage_law\/"},"modified":"2012-03-11T23:18:50","modified_gmt":"2012-03-11T23:18:50","slug":"sunday_london_times_catholics_step_up_attack_on_same-sex_marriage_law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31306","title":{"rendered":"(Sunday [London] Times) Catholics step up attack on same-sex marriage law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, the leader of the Church of England, has said the law should not be used as a tool to bring about social changes such as gay marriages.<\/p>\n<p>But Ben Summerskill, from the lesbian and gay charity Stonewall, said most people who heard the letter would ignore its contents.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;It&#8217;s a shame Catholic church leaders are so deeply opposed to a 21st-century balance of rights that they&#8217;re not reading out letters about serious issues such as the Aids crisis in Africa or the 2.5m children who live in poverty in this country&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesundaytimes.co.uk\/sto\/news\/uk_news\/Society\/article992080.ece\">Read it all<\/a> (requires subscription).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, the leader of the Church of England, has said the law should not be used as a tool to bring about social changes such as gay marriages. But Ben Summerskill, from the lesbian and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31306\">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":[36,39,50,42,175,67,101,199,168,114,98,154,108,364,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-children","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31306","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=31306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}