{"id":33547,"date":"2012-07-12T16:16:56","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T16:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/episcopal_church_passes_same-sex_blessings_houston_area_church_to_offer_new\/"},"modified":"2012-07-12T16:16:56","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T16:16:56","slug":"episcopal_church_passes_same-sex_blessings_houston_area_church_to_offer_new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33547","title":{"rendered":"Episcopal Church passes same-sex blessings, Houston area church to offer new rite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The diocese announced in April that if approved, St. Stephen\u2019s in Montrose and another church in Austin would be the first in the area to offer the blessings, as early as December of this year.<\/p>\n<p>St. Stephen\u2019s Facebook page announced the news of the blessings\u2019  approval with exclamation-laden posts. Parishioner Carvel Glen attended the convention and will share his experience with the congregation in between services on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The liturgy is designed to affirm covenant relationships between gay and lesbian couples, and many advocates of GLBT rights within the church see it as a precursor to same-sex marriages.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.chron.com\/believeitornot\/2012\/07\/episcopal-church-passes-same-sex-blessings-montrose-church-to-offer-new-rite\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The diocese announced in April that if approved, St. Stephen\u2019s in Montrose and another church in Austin would be the first in the area to offer the blessings, as early as December of this year. St. Stephen\u2019s Facebook page announced<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33547\">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":[36,48,661,66,378,184,514,79,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-gen-con-2012","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-general-convention","category-parish-ministry","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\/33547","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=33547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}