{"id":35198,"date":"2012-10-20T17:45:38","date_gmt":"2012-10-20T17:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_times_article_on_the_action_taken_against_s-c-_bishop_lawrence_and_i\/"},"modified":"2012-10-20T17:45:38","modified_gmt":"2012-10-20T17:45:38","slug":"church_times_article_on_the_action_taken_against_s-c-_bishop_lawrence_and_i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35198","title":{"rendered":"Church Times article on the Action Taken Against S.C. Bishop Lawrence and its Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Episcopal Church&#8217;s disciplinary board for bishops has ruled that the Bishop of South Carolina, the Rt Revd Mark Lawrence, has &#8220;abandoned the Episcopal Church&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling means that Bishop Lawrence &#8211; who has been engaged in a long-running battle with the Episcopal Church in the US, particularly over the issue of openly gay clergy &#8211; is &#8220;not permitted to perform any acts as an ordained person&#8221;, an official statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The diocese of South Carolina said in response that the ruling had &#8220;triggered&#8221; a resolution which &#8220;disaffiliated&#8221; it from the Episcopal Church&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2012\/19-october\/news\/world\/diocese-%E2%80%98disaffiliates%E2%80%99-from-us-episcopal-church-after-bishop-lawrence-is-censured\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Episcopal Church&#8217;s disciplinary board for bishops has ruled that the Bishop of South Carolina, the Rt Revd Mark Lawrence, has &#8220;abandoned the Episcopal Church&#8221;. The ruling means that Bishop Lawrence &#8211; who has been engaged in a long-running<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35198\">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":[36,54,66,372,376,646,371],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-south-carolina","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-tec-bishops","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-conflicts-south-carolina","category-tec-polity-canons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35198","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=35198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}