{"id":35903,"date":"2012-11-27T17:00:21","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T17:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/archbishop_longley_support_of_traditional_marriage_cannot_be_overlooked\/"},"modified":"2012-11-27T17:00:21","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T17:00:21","slug":"archbishop_longley_support_of_traditional_marriage_cannot_be_overlooked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35903","title":{"rendered":"Archbishop Longley: &#39;Support of Traditional Marriage Cannot Be Overlooked&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The strong support of many of our Churches and faith communities for the traditional understanding of marriage cannot be overlooked. This message from the faith communities is a reminder that the Government needs to listen carefully to the voices of ordinary people.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;It cannot be presumed that everyone is in favour of same-sex marriage because a vocal minority has captured the attention of the media,&#8221; stressed the Most Reverend Bernard Longley, Archbishop of Birmingham, during the Annual Civic Mass, at the Metropolitan Cathedral &#038; Basilica of St Chad, Birmingham, on the Solemnity of Christ the King on Sunday.<br \/>\nThe Archbishop of Birmingham emphasized: &#8220;At the same time faith communities must welcome a wider public debate in which we can dialogue with those who oppose our views.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zenit.org\/article-36031?l=english\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The strong support of many of our Churches and faith communities for the traditional understanding of marriage cannot be overlooked. This message from the faith communities is a reminder that the Government needs to listen carefully to the voices of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35903\">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":[39,40,50,42,576,101,199,114,98,154,151,108,364,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-children","category-england-uk","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-other-churches","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-sexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35903","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=35903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}