{"id":36003,"date":"2012-12-03T16:15:45","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T16:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bishop_alan_wilson-church_state_another_fine_mess\/"},"modified":"2012-12-03T16:15:45","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T16:15:45","slug":"bishop_alan_wilson-church_state_another_fine_mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36003","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Alan Wilson&#8211;Church &#038; State: Another fine mess?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The parliamentary reaction to this week\u2019s synod vote tells a powerful tale. Wearing his Garrick Club tie, the Second Church Estates Commissioner answered questions from MP&#8217;s, all of whom expressed amazement and moral repugnance about the official and institutionalised sexism of the Established Church. (note to overseas readers \u201d\u201d The Garrick Club is an exclusive Gentleman&#8217;s club in the West End).<\/p>\n<p>The Garrick Club Tie Gaffe (if such it was) underlined an important aspect of the problem: the Church claims to be far more than a private organisation like a golf club, masonic lodge, or Gentleman&#8217;s London hang-out. It claims to be good news for everyone, and the fury of our legislators when they see it acting as though it were a private club, disconnected from society, was unmistakable&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bishopalan.blogspot.co.uk\/2012\/11\/church-state-another-fine-mess.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The parliamentary reaction to this week\u2019s synod vote tells a powerful tale. Wearing his Garrick Club tie, the Second Church Estates Commissioner answered questions from MP&#8217;s, all of whom expressed amazement and moral repugnance about the official and institutionalised sexism<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36003\">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":[36,39,74,389,579,635,114,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-churchstate-matters","category-coe-bishops","category-law-legal-issues","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36003","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=36003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}