{"id":36699,"date":"2013-01-10T18:00:08","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T18:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/times-colonist_blessing_of_same-sex_couples_not_enough_critics_say\/"},"modified":"2013-01-10T18:00:08","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T18:00:08","slug":"times-colonist_blessing_of_same-sex_couples_not_enough_critics_say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36699","title":{"rendered":"(Times-Colonist) Blessing of same-sex couples \u201d\u02dcnot enough,&#39; critics say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A move by the Anglican Diocese of B.C. to allow the blessing of married homosexual couples is only a small step, says a University of Victoria political scientist.<\/p>\n<p>Janni Aragon, who has a special interest in gender issues, said for the church to bless couples but not perform or bless their marriages is not enough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat you see is some softening of church attitudes to acknowledge these people exist, but to say, \u201d\u02dc;We are going to sanctify them but not their marriage\u2019 is just hair-splitting,\u201d\u009d Aragon said Monday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timescolonist.com\/news\/local\/blessing-of-same-sex-couples-not-enough-critics-say-1.41975\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A move by the Anglican Diocese of B.C. to allow the blessing of married homosexual couples is only a small step, says a University of Victoria political scientist. Janni Aragon, who has a special interest in gender issues, said for<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36699\">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":[36,48,39,50,576,388,74,207,114,183,98,184,108,514,112,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36699","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-canada","category-law-legal-issues","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-marriage-family","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36699","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=36699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}