{"id":32496,"date":"2012-05-14T15:15:38","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T15:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/st-_davids_could_be_among_first_episcopal_churches_in_texas_to_offer_blessi\/"},"modified":"2012-05-14T15:15:38","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T15:15:38","slug":"st-_davids_could_be_among_first_episcopal_churches_in_texas_to_offer_blessi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32496","title":{"rendered":"St. David&#39;s could be among first Episcopal churches in Texas to offer blessing for same-sex unions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. David&#8217;s Episcopal Church of Austin would be among the first Episcopal congregations in Texas allowed to offer a liturgy blessing same-sex unions if the Episcopal Church, as expected, approves the trial rite at its general convention in July.<\/p>\n<p>The Rt. Rev. Andy Doyle, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas, has named only one other church, St. Stephen&#8217;s Episcopal in Houston, as among the first with permission to bless same-gender covenants.<\/p>\n<p>Like other denominations, the Episcopal Church has wrestled with the issue of homosexuality for decades. Texas does not recognize same-sex unions, and a number of traditionalists in the Episcopal Church do not favor them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/texas\/st-davids-could-be-among-first-episcopal-churches-2353438.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. David&#8217;s Episcopal Church of Austin would be among the first Episcopal congregations in Texas allowed to offer a liturgy blessing same-sex unions if the Episcopal Church, as expected, approves the trial rite at its general convention in July. The<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32496\">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":[36,66,514,79,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-tec-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32496","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=32496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}