{"id":39415,"date":"2013-08-06T15:30:53","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T15:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cna_same-sex_couple_to_sue_church_of_england_for_marriage_rights\/"},"modified":"2013-08-06T15:30:53","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T15:30:53","slug":"cna_same-sex_couple_to_sue_church_of_england_for_marriage_rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39415","title":{"rendered":"(CNA) Same-Sex Couple to Sue Church of England for Marriage Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following legislation that permits same-sex \u201cmarriage\u201d\u009d in the U.K. yet prohibits the Church of England from performing the ceremony, two men are planning to sue to be able to marry in their church.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are happy for gay marriage to be recognized \u201d\u201d in that sense, it is a big step. But it is actually a small step because it is something we still cannot actually do,\u201d\u009d Barrie Drewitt-Barlow told the Essex Chronicle Aug. 1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to convince the church that it is the right thing for our community for them to recognize as practicing Christians.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/daily-news\/same-sex-couple-to-sue-church-of-england-for-marriage-rights\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following legislation that permits same-sex \u201cmarriage\u201d\u009d in the U.K. yet prohibits the Church of England from performing the ceremony, two men are planning to sue to be able to marry in their church. \u201cWe are happy for gay marriage to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39415\">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":[36,39,50,576,74,389,199,114,98,108,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39415","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-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\/39415","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=39415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}