{"id":35771,"date":"2012-11-20T17:15:03","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T17:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/telegraph_church_warned_over_women_bishops\/"},"modified":"2012-11-20T17:15:03","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T17:15:03","slug":"telegraph_church_warned_over_women_bishops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35771","title":{"rendered":"(Telegraph) Church warned over women bishops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MPs, who must approve any Synod decision before it receives Royal Assent, warned that a failure to approve the proposal could undermine the Church of England\u2019s position as the established Church. Chris Bryant, the Labour MP and a former Anglican priest, said the legislation would face a \u201crough ride\u201d\u009d in Parliament if there were any further concessions to traditionalists. \u201cIf the legislation leans too far towards the traditionalist that won\u2019t please the Commons and the legislation would have trouble,\u201d\u009d he said.<br \/>\n\u201cThere are quite a few of us who think that the way this is leaning is entrenching forever a religious apartheid within the Church of England.\u201d\u009d<br \/>\nHe added that a rejection would \u201cundoubtedly undermine\u201d\u009d support for aspects of establishment, including bishops in the Lords and the role of Parliament approving Church laws.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/religion\/9689267\/Church-warned-over-women-bishops.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MPs, who must approve any Synod decision before it receives Royal Assent, warned that a failure to approve the proposal could undermine the Church of England\u2019s position as the established Church. Chris Bryant, the Labour MP and a former Anglican<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35771\">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":[36,39,40,50,74,389,635,199,114,151,108,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35771","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=35771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}