{"id":32047,"date":"2012-04-19T01:40:51","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T01:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/archbishop_of_wales_says_same_sex_unions_deserves_the_welcome_of_church\/"},"modified":"2012-04-19T01:40:51","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T01:40:51","slug":"archbishop_of_wales_says_same_sex_unions_deserves_the_welcome_of_church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32047","title":{"rendered":"Archbishop of Wales says Same Sex Unions deserve the welcome of church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Archbishop of Wales has lent his support to gay marriage today, saying: \u201cAll life-long committed relationships deserved the welcome, pastoral care and support of the Church.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In his presidential address to members of the Church in Wales\u2019 Governing Body in Llandudno, Dr Barry Morgan said Christians &#8220;need to show how the Gospel of Jesus is good news for gay people&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He said the church had to ask itself whether it would &#8220;protect and support pastorally, faithful, stable, lifelong relationships of whatever kind in order to encourage human values such as love and fidelity and recognise the need in Christian people for some public religious support for these&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/news\/wales-news\/2012\/04\/18\/archbishop-of-wales-says-gay-marriage-deserves-the-welcome-of-the-church-91466-30786073\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Archbishop of Wales has lent his support to gay marriage today, saying: \u201cAll life-long committed relationships deserved the welcome, pastoral care and support of the Church.&#8221; In his presidential address to members of the Church in Wales\u2019 Governing Body<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32047\">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":[36,39,50,576,74,405,199,114,98,108,514,112,79,323],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-wales","category-england-uk","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-religion-culture","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-wales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32047","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=32047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}