{"id":32463,"date":"2012-05-12T19:00:50","date_gmt":"2012-05-12T19:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/article_from_the_state_on_same_sex_marriage_which_includes_quotes_from_bish\/"},"modified":"2012-05-12T19:00:50","modified_gmt":"2012-05-12T19:00:50","slug":"article_from_the_state_on_same_sex_marriage_which_includes_quotes_from_bish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32463","title":{"rendered":"Article from The State on Same Sex Marriage which includes Quotes from Bishop Andrew Waldo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere are certainly members of the church and members of the diocese who believe it is a justice issue, but we have as many who believe that it is a theological issue,\u201d\u009d [Upper South Carolina Episcopal Bishop Andrew] Waldo said. \u201cThe stand that I\u2019ve taken for a long time is that when Jesus called the disciples to love one another, he also called the disciples to give themselves up for each other.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe question that I\u2019m asking is, \u201d\u02dcWhat are we willing to give up for the sake of each other?\u2019\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>At the national convention of the Episcopal Church in July, Waldo and other bishops will take up the issue of the blessing of same-sex unions, although Waldo said \u201cthere is not going to be a vote that says here is what the church is going to do. It will be for experimentation and contemplation.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/2012\/05\/12\/2272939\/local-clergy-obamas-marriage-stance.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere are certainly members of the church and members of the diocese who believe it is a justice issue, but we have as many who believe that it is a theological issue,\u201d\u009d [Upper South Carolina Episcopal Bishop Andrew] Waldo said.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32463\">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":[36,39,40,54,576,66,114,98,616,151,667,108,514,112,79,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-south-carolina","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-religion-culture","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-tec-bishops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32463","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=32463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}