{"id":33693,"date":"2012-07-23T19:19:17","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T19:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/birmingham_news_episcopal_bishop_says_yes_to_same-sex_blessings_but_not_in_\/"},"modified":"2012-07-23T19:19:17","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T19:19:17","slug":"birmingham_news_episcopal_bishop_says_yes_to_same-sex_blessings_but_not_in_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33693","title":{"rendered":"[Birmingham News] Episcopal bishop says yes to same-sex blessings, but not in Alabama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop Kee Sloan, the head of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama, voted in favor of a new ritual of blessing for same-sex unions that the Episcopal Church approved July 10 during its General Convention.<\/p>\n<p>But he won\u2019t allow priests in the Diocese of Alabama to perform it, he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.al.com\/living\/index.ssf\/2012\/07\/episcopal_bishop_says_yes_to_s.html\">Read it all<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See also Bishop Sloan Kee&#8217;s video report on the theological basis for his vote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dioala.org\/dfc\/newsdetail_2\/3154284\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop Kee Sloan, the head of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama, voted in favor of a new ritual of blessing for same-sex unions that the Episcopal Church approved July 10 during its General Convention. But he won\u2019t allow priests in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33693\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":832,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,661,66,378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-gen-con-2012","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-general-convention"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33693","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\/832"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}