{"id":33554,"date":"2012-07-13T02:00:15","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T02:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/living_church_an_action_of_solidarity_in_the_house_of_deputies\/"},"modified":"2012-07-13T02:00:15","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T02:00:15","slug":"living_church_an_action_of_solidarity_in_the_house_of_deputies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33554","title":{"rendered":"(Living Church) An Action of Solidarity in the House of Deputies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 30 deputies stood in silent protest July 12 of the Episcopal Church\u2019s provisional rite for blessing same-sex couples. After the Rev. Canon Neal Michell read The Indianapolis Statement to the House of Deputies, about three dozen deputies rose in solidarity.<\/p>\n<p>Signed by 14 current and retired bishops, the statement says the rite is for all practical purposes a wedding service and contradicts biblical theology and the Book of Common Prayer. The statement also reaffirms the dissenting bishops\u2019 commitment to gay and lesbian Christians, to their dioceses, and \u201cto the Anglican Communion of which the Episcopal Church is a constituent member, and to the historic See of Canterbury with whom we are in communion.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/livingchurch.org\/act-solidarity\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 30 deputies stood in silent protest July 12 of the Episcopal Church\u2019s provisional rite for blessing same-sex couples. After the Rev. Canon Neal Michell read The Indianapolis Statement to the House of Deputies, about three dozen deputies rose<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33554\">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":[36,661,66,378,514,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-gen-con-2012","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-general-convention","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33554","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=33554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}