{"id":33261,"date":"2012-06-26T16:50:36","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T16:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/two_bishops_break_ranks_to_speak_out_against_the_church_of_englands_opposit\/"},"modified":"2012-06-26T16:50:36","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T16:50:36","slug":"two_bishops_break_ranks_to_speak_out_against_the_church_of_englands_opposit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33261","title":{"rendered":"Two bishops break ranks to speak out against the Church of England\u2019s opposition to same-sex marria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks ago the Church published its formal response to the Government\u2019s proposal to allow same-sex couples to marry, declaring itself firmly against the move.<\/p>\n<p>The two bishops are the most senior figures to attack the stance. The Rt Rev Alan Wilson, the Bishop of Buckingham, said: \u201cThe statement is narrow and legalistic &#8230; Jesus didn\u2019t say anything about being gay, but he said a certain amount about loving your neighbour as yourself.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The Rt Rev Tim Ellis, the Bishop of Grantham, said the official position did not reflect the true \u201cmind\u201d\u009d of the Church.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/religion\/9351453\/Bishops-rebel-against-Church-marriage-policy.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks ago the Church published its formal response to the Government\u2019s proposal to allow same-sex couples to marry, declaring itself firmly against the move. The two bishops are the most senior figures to attack the stance. The Rt Rev<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33261\">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":[36,39,50,576,74,389,635,199,114,98,108,112,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33261","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=33261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}