{"id":36101,"date":"2012-12-08T20:01:34","date_gmt":"2012-12-08T20:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/irish_times_cameron_faces_revolt_on_same-sex_marriage\/"},"modified":"2012-12-08T20:01:34","modified_gmt":"2012-12-08T20:01:34","slug":"irish_times_cameron_faces_revolt_on_same-sex_marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36101","title":{"rendered":"(Irish Times) David Cameron faces revolt on same-sex marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legislation to clear the way for gay marriage in the UK will include an opt-in for churches who favour the change, British prime minister David Cameron has said.<\/p>\n<p>His declaration threatens a major revolt by Conservative MPs opposed to his plans when the issue will be decided in a free-vote in the House of Commons.<\/p>\n<p>Saying he did not want gay couples \u201cexcluded from a great institution\u201d\u009d, Mr Cameron insisted that churches opposed to gay marriage will not and cannot be forced to sanctify them.<\/p>\n<p>However, the plans are more developed than they were when they were first produced last March, when it proposed civil ceremonies only.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/newspaper\/world\/2012\/1208\/1224327654404.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legislation to clear the way for gay marriage in the UK will include an opt-in for churches who favour the change, British prime minister David Cameron has said. His declaration threatens a major revolt by Conservative MPs opposed to his<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36101\">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":[36,39,50,42,576,74,389,579,199,114,98,154,108,364,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-churchstate-matters","category-england-uk","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-sexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36101","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=36101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}