{"id":33010,"date":"2012-06-12T15:22:40","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T15:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/c_of_e-a_response_to_the_government_equalities_office_consultation_-equal_\/"},"modified":"2012-06-12T15:22:40","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T15:22:40","slug":"c_of_e-a_response_to_the_government_equalities_office_consultation_-equal_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33010","title":{"rendered":"C of E&#8211;A Response to the Government Equalities Office Consultation -\u201cEqual Civil Marriage&#34;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In its submission to the Government consultation on same-sex marriage, which closes on June 14, the Church of England states it cannot support the proposal to enable &#8220;all couples, regardless of their gender, to have a civil marriage ceremony&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It adds that the consultation paper wrongly implies that there are two categories of marriage, &#8220;civil&#8221; and &#8220;religious&#8221; &#8211; &#8220;this is to mistake the wedding ceremony for the institution of marriage&#8221;.  Changing the State&#8217;s understanding of marriage will, therefore, change the way marriage is defined for everybody and, despite the government&#8217;s assurances to the contrary, will change the nature of marriages solemnized in churches and other places of worship.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchofengland.org\/media-centre\/news\/2012\/06\/a-response-to-the-government-equalities-office-consultation-%E2%80%9Cequal-civil-marriage%E2%80%9D-.aspx\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In its submission to the Government consultation on same-sex marriage, which closes on June 14, the Church of England states it cannot support the proposal to enable &#8220;all couples, regardless of their gender, to have a civil marriage ceremony&#8221;. It<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33010\">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":[36,39,40,50,576,381,74,67,83,389,199,168,114,98,151,108,112,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-rowan-williams","category-anglican-provinces","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-archbishop-of-york-john-sentamu","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33010","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=33010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}