{"id":32440,"date":"2012-05-10T17:46:11","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T17:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_belfast_telegraph_article_on_the_church_of_ireland_general_synod\/"},"modified":"2012-05-10T17:46:11","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T17:46:11","slug":"a_belfast_telegraph_article_on_the_church_of_ireland_general_synod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32440","title":{"rendered":"A Belfast Telegraph Article on the Church of Ireland General Synod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A controversial motion to be put to the Church of Ireland\u2019s General Synod stating that only sex within marriage is \u201cnormative\u201d\u009d could lead to a \u201cwitch-hunt\u201d\u009d against gay clergy, campaigners have said.<\/p>\n<p>More than 20 gay, lesbian and bisexual Anglicans have signed a letter published in today\u2019s Belfast Telegraph objecting to Resolution 8A, which states that marriage can only occur between one man and one woman for the \u201cprocreation and nurture of children\u201d\u009d. It adds that monogamous marriage is the \u201conly normative context for sexual relationships\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>Signatories argue that, if passed, Church members in same-sex relationships will be stigmatised.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/news\/local-national\/northern-ireland\/gay-clergy-could-face-witchhunt-if-church-of-ireland-synod-backs-motions-say-campaigners-16156282.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A controversial motion to be put to the Church of Ireland\u2019s General Synod stating that only sex within marriage is \u201cnormative\u201d\u009d could lead to a \u201cwitch-hunt\u201d\u009d against gay clergy, campaigners have said. More than 20 gay, lesbian and bisexual Anglicans<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32440\">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":[36,74,409,514,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-ireland","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32440","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=32440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}