{"id":35217,"date":"2012-10-21T21:28:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-21T21:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/fond_du_lac_episcopal_bishop_says_no_to_same-sex_blessings\/"},"modified":"2012-10-21T21:28:24","modified_gmt":"2012-10-21T21:28:24","slug":"fond_du_lac_episcopal_bishop_says_no_to_same-sex_blessings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35217","title":{"rendered":"Fond Du Lac Episcopal bishop says no to same-sex blessings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Fond du Lac Episcopal Diocese churches wishing to perform same-sex relationship blessing ceremonies, Bishop Russell Jacobus\u2019 decision is no &#8230; for now.<\/p>\n<p>He told Saturday\u2019s 138th Annual Diocesan Convention audience at the Holiday Inn Manitowoc that more study was needed \u201cbefore we move forward into an era where the church would be re-interpreting &#8230; the historical and traditional view of marriage.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>After his address to delegates, Jacobus said only one church in the diocese, with 37 worshiping sites, had discussed and studied the issue with the kind of thoroughness he believes necessary without risking unnecessary divisiveness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.htrnews.com\/article\/20121021\/MAN0101\/310210202\/Episcopal-bishop-says-no-same-sex-blessings\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Fond du Lac Episcopal Diocese churches wishing to perform same-sex relationship blessing ceremonies, Bishop Russell Jacobus\u2019 decision is no &#8230; for now. He told Saturday\u2019s 138th Annual Diocesan Convention audience at the Holiday Inn Manitowoc that more study was<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35217\">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":[36,66,514,79,372,379],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-tec-bishops","category-tec-diocesan-conventionsdiocesan-councils"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35217","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=35217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}