{"id":33601,"date":"2012-07-15T22:26:58","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T22:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_reaction_mixed_to_episcopal_churchs_approval_of_same-sex_rites1\/"},"modified":"2012-07-15T22:26:58","modified_gmt":"2012-07-15T22:26:58","slug":"rns_reaction_mixed_to_episcopal_churchs_approval_of_same-sex_rites1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33601","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Reaction mixed to Episcopal Church&#39;s approval of same-sex rites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Missouri, Bishop Wayne Smith,  said in a statement that under his direction &#8220;the rites will be implemented carefully and pastorally, parish by parish, person by person.&#8221; The diocese, with about 14,000 members, encompasses the eastern half of the state.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Daniel Martins leads the 5,000 Episcopalians in the Springfield, Ill. diocese, which encompasses southern and eastern-central Illinois and includes congregations in Alton, Belleville, Carbondale, Edwardsville, Glen Carbon, Granite City and O&#8217;Fallon.<\/p>\n<p>Martins voted in the minority against the resolution, and told the Post-Dispatch in an e-mail Wednesday that he had been &#8220;clear all along that anything like what we just passed&#8221; would not be implemented in his diocese.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/lifestyles\/faith-and-values\/reaction-mixed-to-episcopal-church-s-approval-of-same-sex\/article_b63e59f2-cba1-11e1-84c4-001a4bcf6878.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Missouri, Bishop Wayne Smith, said in a statement that under his direction &#8220;the rites will be implemented carefully and pastorally, parish by parish, person by person.&#8221; The diocese, with about 14,000 members, encompasses<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33601\">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":[36,48,661,66,378,183,184,514,79,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33601","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-liturgy-music-worship","category-parish-ministry","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-tec-bishops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33601","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=33601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}