{"id":38581,"date":"2013-06-06T17:05:54","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T17:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/telegraph_church_of_england_gives_up_fight_against_same_sex_marriage\/"},"modified":"2013-06-06T17:05:54","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T17:05:54","slug":"telegraph_church_of_england_gives_up_fight_against_same_sex_marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38581","title":{"rendered":"(Telegraph) Church of England gives up fight against Same Sex marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bishop of Leicester, who leads the bishops in the House of Lords, said they would now concentrate their efforts on \u201cimproving\u201d\u009d rather than halting an historic redefinition of marriage.<\/p>\n<p>It represents a dramatic change of tack in the year since the Church insisted that gay marriage posed one of the biggest threats of disestablishment of the Church of England since the reign of Henry VIII.<\/p>\n<p>And it comes despite a warning from the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev Justin Welby, that the redefinition of marriage would undermine the \u201ccornerstone\u201d\u009d of society.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/religion\/10101900\/Church-of-England-gives-up-fight-against-gay-marriage.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bishop of Leicester, who leads the bishops in the House of Lords, said they would now concentrate their efforts on \u201cimproving\u201d\u009d rather than halting an historic redefinition of marriage. It represents a dramatic change of tack in the year<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38581\">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":[36,39,50,576,74,389,635,199,114,98,108,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38581","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=38581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}