{"id":39167,"date":"2013-07-22T16:01:03","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T16:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nz_herald_unitarian_minister_steps_in_after_anglican_church_says_no_to_same\/"},"modified":"2013-07-22T16:01:03","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T16:01:03","slug":"nz_herald_unitarian_minister_steps_in_after_anglican_church_says_no_to_same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39167","title":{"rendered":"(NZ Herald) Unitarian Minister Steps in after Anglican Church says no to same sex wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[The] Reverend Dr Matt Tittle of the Auckland Unitarian Church in Ponsonby will officiate at the wedding of the couple that wins ZM&#8217;s Fabulous Gay Wedding competition.<\/p>\n<p>The broadcaster had hoped to hold the event &#8211; on August 19, the day legislation allowing same sex marriage comes into force &#8211; at St Matthew-in-the-City parish in central Auckland.<\/p>\n<p>But St Matthew&#8217;s vicar, [the] Reverend Glynn Cardy, said he was unable to oblige because Anglican officials will not solemnise gay weddings. The parish had offered to host a blessing after the legal ceremony was held elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/news\/article.cfm?c_id=1&#038;objectid=10900422\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[The] Reverend Dr Matt Tittle of the Auckland Unitarian Church in Ponsonby will officiate at the wedding of the couple that wins ZM&#8217;s Fabulous Gay Wedding competition. The broadcaster had hoped to hold the event &#8211; on August 19, the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39167\">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":[36,48,39,50,42,576,399,74,204,183,98,155,184,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anglican-church-in-aotearoa-new-zealand-and-polynesia","category-anglican-provinces","category-australia-nz","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-marriage-family","category-other-faiths","category-parish-ministry","category-sexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39167","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=39167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}