{"id":36765,"date":"2013-01-14T19:00:54","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T19:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/el_paso_times_in_new_mexico_and_parts_of_tex-_tec_priests_can_now_bless_sam\/"},"modified":"2013-01-14T19:00:54","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T19:00:54","slug":"el_paso_times_in_new_mexico_and_parts_of_tex-_tec_priests_can_now_bless_sam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36765","title":{"rendered":"(El Paso Times) In New Mexico and parts of Tex. TEC priests can now bless same-sex relationships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop Michael L. Vono of the Episcopal Diocese of the Rio Grande, which includes El Paso, said the liturgy is an issue of human dignity that breaks barriers for the gay community.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m very positive about it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We live in an age where there is still a lot of judgment, still a lot of discrimination that happens within Christianity. We exclude people that are not like ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So this may be the Jesus thing to do in our age because Jesus forced the issue that no one is rejected by God and that all people are loved. And if you have two responsible people, whether heterosexual or gay, who love in a Christian way &#8212; which is responsibly and exclusively monogamous and help each other and forgive each other &#8212; what more can we ask for?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elpasotimes.com\/news\/ci_22363649\/episcopal-priests-can-now-bless-same-sex-relationships\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop Michael L. Vono of the Episcopal Diocese of the Rio Grande, which includes El Paso, said the liturgy is an issue of human dignity that breaks barriers for the gay community. &#8220;I&#8217;m very positive about it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36765\">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":[36,48,661,175,66,168,378,183,184,514,79,372,380,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-gen-con-2012","category-anthropology","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-general-convention","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-parish-ministry","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-tec-bishops","category-tec-parishes","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36765","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=36765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}