{"id":38467,"date":"2013-05-30T17:30:13","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T17:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_scotland_church_of_scotland_general_assembly_votes_to_embrace_new_sexua\/"},"modified":"2013-05-30T17:30:13","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T17:30:13","slug":"bbc_scotland_church_of_scotland_general_assembly_votes_to_embrace_new_sexua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38467","title":{"rendered":"(BBC Scotland) Church of Scotland General Assembly votes to embrace new sexual ethic, but gradually"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, the Right Reverend Lorna Hood, said: &#8220;This is a massive vote for the peace and unity of the Church.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Kirk said that after a &#8220;full but gracious debate&#8221; it affirmed its current doctrine and practice in relation to human sexuality but moved to permit sessions wishing to depart from the traditional position to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Hood added: &#8220;This was a major breakthrough for the Church but we are conscious that some people remain pained, anxious, worried and hurt. We continue to pray for the peace and unity of the Church.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-scotland-22580322\">Read it all<\/a> and make sure to read Robert Piggott&#8217;s comments alongside also.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, the Right Reverend Lorna Hood, said: &#8220;This is a massive vote for the peace and unity of the Church.&#8221; The Kirk said that after a &#8220;full but gracious debate&#8221;<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38467\">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":[39,50,42,576,175,172,199,168,98,154,417,108,326,112,34,171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anthropology","category-ecclesiology","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-other-churches","category-presbyterian","category-religion-culture","category-scotland","category-sexuality","category-theology","category-theology-salvation-soteriology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38467","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=38467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}