{"id":37186,"date":"2013-02-07T16:45:35","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T16:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/vancouver_sun_premier_christy_clark_stands_up_for_her_anglican_faith\/"},"modified":"2013-02-07T16:45:35","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T16:45:35","slug":"vancouver_sun_premier_christy_clark_stands_up_for_her_anglican_faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37186","title":{"rendered":"(Vancouver Sun) [Premier] Christy Clark stands up for her Anglican faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During her informal 50-minute talk before the ethnically mixed audience, Clark discussed what it means to be a lifelong Anglican, her support for \u201cfaith-based\u201d\u009d social services, her views on same-sex marriage, her commitment to \u201ckindness\u201d\u009d and her approach to the Bible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me it\u2019s been kind of an interesting experience to realize, for the first time in my life, that perhaps being a Christian is something that I should not talk about. But I reject that,\u201d\u009d the premier said.<\/p>\n<p>Saying B.C. has more \u201cdeclared atheists\u201d\u009d than any province in Canada, Clark nevertheless said for her \u201cthe most important thing is to go to church every week and be reminded, by someone whom I respect, to be kind \u201d\u00a6 to be compassionate.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouversun.com\/Christy+Clark+stands+Anglican+faith\/7928815\/story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During her informal 50-minute talk before the ethnically mixed audience, Clark discussed what it means to be a lifelong Anglican, her support for \u201cfaith-based\u201d\u009d social services, her views on same-sex marriage, her commitment to \u201ckindness\u201d\u009d and her approach to the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37186\">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":[36,39,40,50,388,74,207,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-church-of-canada","category-anglican-provinces","category-canada","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37186","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=37186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}