{"id":36091,"date":"2012-12-07T19:00:54","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T19:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/same-sex_blessings_green_lit_in_the_anglican_diocese_of_quebec\/"},"modified":"2012-12-07T19:00:54","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T19:00:54","slug":"same-sex_blessings_green_lit_in_the_anglican_diocese_of_quebec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36091","title":{"rendered":"&#34;Same-sex  blessings  green lit&#34; in the Anglican Diocese of Quebec"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Diocese of Quebec will join about a dozen other dioceses of the Anglican Church of Canada in offering blessings to same-gender couples.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Dennis Drainville signalled his intention to move forward with the blessing of committed gay and lesbian partners in his charge to the diocesan Synod, held Nov. 2-4 outside Quebec City.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to proceed in the Diocese of Quebec, as several other Canadian dioceses have done, to provide both a rite of blessing and pastoral support for persons living in committed, same-gender relationships,\u201d\u009d the bishop told members of Synod.\u201cThis act of blessing is not the performing of a marriage but rather the blessing of civil union that has already taken place,\u201d\u009d he added in his monthly pastoral letter&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/quebec.anglican.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Quebec-Dec2012-Web.pdf\">Read it all<\/a> (the article begins on page one of the pdf and continues on page eight).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Diocese of Quebec will join about a dozen other dioceses of the Anglican Church of Canada in offering blessings to same-gender couples. Bishop Dennis Drainville signalled his intention to move forward with the blessing of committed gay and lesbian<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36091\">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":[36,48,39,50,576,388,74,175,207,168,114,183,98,184,177,108,514,112,79,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anglican-church-of-canada","category-anglican-provinces","category-anthropology","category-canada","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-marriage-family","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36091","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=36091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}