{"id":34344,"date":"2012-09-01T22:04:24","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T22:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/same_sex_marriage_bill_brings_church_views_into_focus_in_new_zealand\/"},"modified":"2012-09-01T22:04:24","modified_gmt":"2012-09-01T22:04:24","slug":"same_sex_marriage_bill_brings_church_views_into_focus_in_new_zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34344","title":{"rendered":"Same Sex Marriage Bill brings church views into focus in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Anglican Church also has a moratorium against the ordination of people living in openly gay relationships. Now it is tackling the issue head-on, establishing a commission to summarise the biblical and theological work done by the church on the ordination of gay priests and same-sex civil unions during the past 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>The commission&#8217;s report on options and implications of change will be discussed at the 2014 Anglican general synod.<\/p>\n<p>The Rev Dr James Harding, assistant priest at All Saints Anglican Church, North Dunedin, and a senior lecturer in Old Testament studies at the University of Otago, said the debate going on in Parliament was unlikely to influence the views of anyone in the church.<\/p>\n<p>While most church leaders agreed that the Bible was the authority on marriage, they disagreed on how to interpret scripture, he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.odt.co.nz\/news\/national\/224108\/bill-brings-church-views-focus\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Anglican Church also has a moratorium against the ordination of people living in openly gay relationships. Now it is tackling the issue head-on, establishing a commission to summarise the biblical and theological work done by the church on the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34344\">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":[36,39,40,50,399,74,204,114,98,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-church-in-aotearoa-new-zealand-and-polynesia","category-anglican-provinces","category-australia-nz","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34344","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=34344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}