{"id":33628,"date":"2012-07-18T16:59:59","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T16:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bishop_who_leads_central_gulf_coast_episcopal_diocese_will_bless_gay_unions\/"},"modified":"2012-07-18T16:59:59","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T16:59:59","slug":"bishop_who_leads_central_gulf_coast_episcopal_diocese_will_bless_gay_unions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33628","title":{"rendered":"Bishop who leads Central Gulf Coast Episcopal diocese will bless same-sex unions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although the spiritual leader of Pensacola-area Episcopal churches is conflicted, he has decided to authorize blessing same-sex unions.<\/p>\n<p>The Rt. Rev. Philip M. Duncan II, bishop of the 63-congregation Diocese of the Central Gulf Coast, stated in a letter to his flock of about 19,000 people: \u201cI will consider each request for blessing individually, and I shall permit it where it has pastoral warrant.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Duncan\u2019s statement followed a decision by bishops at the Episcopal General Convention in Indianapolis this month to approve rites for gay and lesbian relationships&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnj.com\/article\/20120717\/NEWS01\/307170020\/Bishop-who-leads-Pensacola-area-Episcopal-diocese-will-bless-gay-unions\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the spiritual leader of Pensacola-area Episcopal churches is conflicted, he has decided to authorize blessing same-sex unions. The Rt. Rev. Philip M. Duncan II, bishop of the 63-congregation Diocese of the Central Gulf Coast, stated in a letter to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33628\">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":[36,48,661,175,66,168,378,183,184,177,514,79,372,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-gen-con-2012","category-anthropology","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-general-convention","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-tec-bishops","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33628","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=33628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}