{"id":32251,"date":"2012-04-30T16:59:48","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T16:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/boston_globe-new_hampshire_episcopalians_may_elect_2nd_non-celibate_gay_bi\/"},"modified":"2012-04-30T16:59:48","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T16:59:48","slug":"boston_globe-new_hampshire_episcopalians_may_elect_2nd_non-celibate_gay_bi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32251","title":{"rendered":"Boston Globe&#8211;New Hampshire Episcopalians may elect 2nd non-celibate gay bishop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nine years after electing the first openly gay bishop in the history of their church, causing a rift in the worldwide Anglican Communion that remains unrepaired, New Hampshire Episcopalians may choose a second [non-celibate] gay man as their leader&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;some US church leaders remain optimistic about the future of the Anglican Communion. Bishop M. Thomas Shaw of the Diocese of Massachusetts said he believes it will survive &#8211; not because conservative and liberal dioceses will reach agreement on hot-button issues like sexuality, but because he believes they will be willing to grant one another greater autonomy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there is definitely a change, a movement in much of the African church not to recognize the blessing of same-sex unions, or to encourage gay partnerships, but a real acknowledgment that our cultures and pastoral situations are different,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/articles\/2012\/04\/30\/episcopal_church_in_new_hampshire_considers_appointing_second_gay_man_as_bishop\">Read it all<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine years after electing the first openly gay bishop in the history of their church, causing a rift in the worldwide Anglican Communion that remains unrepaired, New Hampshire Episcopalians may choose a second [non-celibate] gay man as their leader&#8230;. &#8230;some<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32251\">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":[36,175,66,168,511,78,177,514,79,372,379,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anthropology","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-fca-meeting-in-london-april-2012","category-global-south-churches-primates","category-pastoral-theology","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-tec-bishops","category-tec-diocesan-conventionsdiocesan-councils","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32251","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=32251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}