{"id":33262,"date":"2012-06-26T17:30:44","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T17:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/berkhamsted_vicar_defies_church_to_support_same-sex_weddings\/"},"modified":"2012-06-26T17:30:44","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T17:30:44","slug":"berkhamsted_vicar_defies_church_to_support_same-sex_weddings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33262","title":{"rendered":"Berkhamsted vicar defies Church to support Same-Sex weddings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A vicar&#8230; [has] defended government proposals for same-sex marriage against the official policy of his own Church&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Michael Bowie, Anglican vicar at St Peter\u2019s Church in Berkhamsted High Street, described the [Church of England] stance as \u201cdisappointing and legalistic\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>In an emailed newsletter, he writes: \u201cAs usual we are seen to be providing a mean-spirited reaction to something that our society sees as not only acceptable but just.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt appears to the world that \u201d\u02dcmorality\u2019, for us, is about sex and nothing more&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hemeltoday.co.uk\/news\/local\/berkhamsted-vicar-defies-church-to-support-gay-weddings-1-3988099\">Read it all<\/a>. Also, you may find the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stpetersberkhamsted.org.uk\">parish website there<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A vicar&#8230; [has] defended government proposals for same-sex marriage against the official policy of his own Church&#8230;. &#8230;Michael Bowie, Anglican vicar at St Peter\u2019s Church in Berkhamsted High Street, described the [Church of England] stance as \u201cdisappointing and legalistic\u201d\u009d. In<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33262\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33262","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=33262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}