{"id":31496,"date":"2012-03-21T15:30:01","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T15:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/in_western_australia_anglicans_raise_questions_about_civil_marriage\/"},"modified":"2012-03-21T15:30:01","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T15:30:01","slug":"in_western_australia_anglicans_raise_questions_about_civil_marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31496","title":{"rendered":"In Western Australia, Anglicans raise questions about civil marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The head of Perth&#8217;s Anglican Church has dismissed civil marriage ceremonies as &#8220;sentimental fuzz&#8221; as new figures reveal more than 70 per cent of WA couples opt for civil celebrants over religious ministers to conduct their nuptials.<\/p>\n<p>The latest Australian Bureau of Statistics figures show just 27 per cent of weddings in WA were conducted by a religious official in 2010 &#8211; down more than 2 per cent on the previous year &#8211; while 78.2 per cent were overseen by a civil celebrant.<\/p>\n<p>Anglican Archbishop of Perth Roger Herft said the statistics were a sign of the times but true commitment could only be forged in the house of God.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/au.news.yahoo.com\/thewest\/a\/-\/breaking\/13210166\/anglicans-attack-civil-marriage\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of Perth&#8217;s Anglican Church has dismissed civil marriage ceremonies as &#8220;sentimental fuzz&#8221; as new figures reveal more than 70 per cent of WA couples opt for civil celebrants over religious ministers to conduct their nuptials. The latest Australian<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31496\">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":[36,39,42,395,74,114,98,155,108,424],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anglican-church-of-australia","category-anglican-provinces","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-secularism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31496","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=31496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}