{"id":35997,"date":"2012-12-03T00:55:27","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T00:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/mail_online_general_synods_house_of_laity_may_oust_chairman_after_recent_vo\/"},"modified":"2012-12-03T00:55:27","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T00:55:27","slug":"mail_online_general_synods_house_of_laity_may_oust_chairman_after_recent_vo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35997","title":{"rendered":"(Mail Online) General Synod&#39;s House of Laity may oust Chairman after recent Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Church of England\u2019s \u201d\u02dcparliament\u2019 are attempting to oust one of its most senior figures following the defeat of legislation to allow women bishops.<\/p>\n<p>In a dramatic move, members of the General Synod\u2019s House of Laity have secretly called an emergency meeting so they can hold a vote of no confidence in their Chair, Dr Philip Giddings, who spoke forcefully against the reform.<\/p>\n<p>They believe that, if Dr Giddings is forced out, the move could help Church leaders get around the rules and bring back the legislation before a new Synod is elected in three years\u2019 time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2241608\/Synod-oust-chairman-defeat-legislation-allow-women-bishops.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Church of England\u2019s \u201d\u02dcparliament\u2019 are attempting to oust one of its most senior figures following the defeat of legislation to allow women bishops. In a dramatic move, members of the General Synod\u2019s House of Laity have secretly<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35997\">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":[36,39,50,74,389,635,199,108,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-religion-culture","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35997","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=35997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}