{"id":33044,"date":"2012-06-14T15:15:24","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T15:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/catholic_bishops_conference_of_england_and_wales_responds_to_the_equal_civi\/"},"modified":"2012-06-14T15:15:24","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T15:15:24","slug":"catholic_bishops_conference_of_england_and_wales_responds_to_the_equal_civi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33044","title":{"rendered":"Catholic Bishops\u2019 Conference of England and Wales Responds to Equal Civil Marriage Consultation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholic-ew.org.uk\/Home\/News-Releases\/Latest\/Catholic-Bishops-Conference-of-England-and-Wales-Responds-to-the-Equal-Civil-Marriage-Consultation\">From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Catholic Bishops\u2019 Conference of England and Wales has responded to the Government consultation on same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n<p>In his accompanying letter to the Home Secretary, the Vice-President of the Catholic Bishops&#8217; Conference of England and Wales, Archbishop Peter Smith says:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the interest of upholding the uniqueness of marriage as a civil institution for the common good of society, we strongly urge the Government not to proceed with legislative proposals which will &#8216;enable all couples, regardless of their gender to have a civil marriage ceremony'&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Check out the other material which is linked if you are interested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: The Catholic Bishops\u2019 Conference of England and Wales has responded to the Government consultation on same-sex marriage. In his accompanying letter to the Home Secretary, the Vice-President of the Catholic Bishops&#8217; Conference of England and Wales, Archbishop Peter<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33044\">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":[39,42,576,114,98,154,108,364,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-sexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33044","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=33044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}