{"id":38072,"date":"2013-04-30T17:00:15","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T17:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rules_set_for_oklahoma_episcopal_parishes_to_offer_same-gender_blessings\/"},"modified":"2013-04-30T17:00:15","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T17:00:15","slug":"rules_set_for_oklahoma_episcopal_parishes_to_offer_same-gender_blessings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38072","title":{"rendered":"Rules set for Oklahoma Episcopal parishes to offer same-gender blessings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guidelines have been established for same-gender blessing ceremonies to be performed in Oklahoma Episcopal churches, a state leader with the denomination said.<\/p>\n<p>The Rt. Rev. Ed Konieczny, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Oklahoma, said three parishes already have expressed interest in starting the process so they can conduct such ceremonies, although he does not believe \u201cthere are large numbers of people out there waiting for this.\u201d\u009d He declined to name the interested parishes, as they have yet to request formal approval.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don&#8217;t expect that this is going to be a floodgate of things. We will make it available and people will take advantage of it according to who they are,\u201d\u009d he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsok.com\/rules-set-for-oklahoma-episcopal-parishes-to-offer-same-gender-blessings\/article\/3804639\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guidelines have been established for same-gender blessing ceremonies to be performed in Oklahoma Episcopal churches, a state leader with the denomination said. The Rt. Rev. Ed Konieczny, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Oklahoma, said three parishes already have expressed<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38072\">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":[36,48,39,576,175,66,168,183,98,184,514,112,79,372,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anthropology","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-marriage-family","category-parish-ministry","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-tec-bishops","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38072","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=38072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}