{"id":34998,"date":"2012-10-08T18:00:51","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T18:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/tec_diocese_of_fond_du_lac_considers_blessing_same-sex_relationships\/"},"modified":"2012-10-08T18:00:51","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T18:00:51","slug":"tec_diocese_of_fond_du_lac_considers_blessing_same-sex_relationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34998","title":{"rendered":"TEC Diocese of Fond Du Lac considers blessing same-sex relationships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year at its general convention, the national church authorized the provisional use of liturgy to bless same-sex couples. The liturgy can be used beginning in December if local diocese choose to allow it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe church says we can use it, but it is under the authority of the local bishops whether to use it,\u201d\u009d said Bishop Russell Jacobus of the Episcopal Diocese of Fond du Lac, which heads Episcopal churches in Northeastern Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>Jacobus said he plans to announce his decision of whether to allow clergy in the diocese to use the liturgy at the diocese\u2019s annual convention Oct. 19-20 in Manitowoc.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fdlreporter.com\/article\/20121008\/FON0101\/310080014\/Episcopal-Church-considers-blessing-same-sex-relationships\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year at its general convention, the national church authorized the provisional use of liturgy to bless same-sex couples. The liturgy can be used beginning in December if local diocese choose to allow it. \u201cThe church says we can<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34998\">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":[36,661,66,378,514,79,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-gen-con-2012","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-general-convention","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\/34998","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=34998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}