{"id":37802,"date":"2013-04-14T00:12:45","date_gmt":"2013-04-14T00:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/independent_outgoing_bishop_of_liverpool_wants_ban_lifted_on_same-sex_partn\/"},"modified":"2013-04-14T00:12:45","modified_gmt":"2013-04-14T00:12:45","slug":"independent_outgoing_bishop_of_liverpool_wants_ban_lifted_on_same-sex_partn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37802","title":{"rendered":"(Independent) Outgoing Bishop of Liverpool wants ban lifted on same-sex partnership blessings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the country&#8217;s most senior Anglican bishops came a step closer to endorsing gay marriage after he called for the ban on same-sex partnership blessings to be lifted.<\/p>\n<p>The outgoing Bishop of Liverpool, the Right Rev James Jones, said it was time for the church to consider the blessing of civil partnerships. &#8220;We&#8217;ve come to a time now that if we believe that civil partnerships are just then we can&#8217;t withhold the blessing of God from that which we believe to be just,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Although the remarks fell short of endorsing gay marriage they will nonetheless embolden campaigners. The Church of England has previously ruled out offering blessings to same-sex couples.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/outgoing-bishop-of-liverpool-wants-ban-lifted-on-samesex-partnership-blessings-8567995.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the country&#8217;s most senior Anglican bishops came a step closer to endorsing gay marriage after he called for the ban on same-sex partnership blessings to be lifted. The outgoing Bishop of Liverpool, the Right Rev James Jones, said<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37802\">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":[36,39,40,50,576,74,175,389,635,199,168,114,98,151,108,112,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anglican-provinces","category-anthropology","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37802","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=37802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}