{"id":33749,"date":"2012-07-27T15:31:20","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T15:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_times_david_cameron-c_of_e_without_integrity_on_subject_of_same-sex\/"},"modified":"2012-07-27T15:31:20","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T15:31:20","slug":"church_times_david_cameron-c_of_e_without_integrity_on_subject_of_same-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33749","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) David Cameron&#8211;C of E \u201d\u02dcwithout integrity\u2019 on subject of same-sex marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England is in danger of repeating the mistake, made by the Conservative Party, of &#8220;locking out&#8221; people by opposing same-sex marriage, the Prime Minister has said.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a reception for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans-sexual community at 10 Downing Street on Tuesday evening, Mr Cameron said that he was &#8220;absolutely determined&#8221; that the Government would legislate for gay marriage &#8220;in this Parliament&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He compared the Church to his own Party, &#8220;which for many many years got itself on the wrong side of this argument. . . it locked people out who were naturally Conservative from supporting it, and so I think I can make that point to the Church, gently.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2012\/27-july\/news\/uk\/c-of-e-%E2%80%98without-integrity%E2%80%99-on-subject-of-same-sex-marriage\">Read it all<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.number10.gov.uk\/news\/lgbt-reception\">you may find the whole speech there<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England is in danger of repeating the mistake, made by the Conservative Party, of &#8220;locking out&#8221; people by opposing same-sex marriage, the Prime Minister has said. Addressing a reception for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans-sexual community<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33749\">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":[36,39,40,50,576,74,389,199,114,98,151,108,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33749","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=33749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}