{"id":40437,"date":"2013-10-08T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ten_years_ago_today-the_plano_conference_i_a_new_york_times_article\/"},"modified":"2013-10-08T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T15:00:00","slug":"ten_years_ago_today-the_plano_conference_i_a_new_york_times_article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40437","title":{"rendered":"Ten Years Ago Today&#8211;The Plano Conference (I): A New York Times Article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a further sign of fracture in the Episcopal Church over the ordination of an openly gay bishop, thousands of conservative American Anglicans rallied here on Tuesday at a conference that advocated radically reorganizing church authority.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting, called by the orthodox American Anglican Council a week before an emergency meeting of Anglican leaders in London to avert a worldwide schism, circulated a draft &#8221;call to action&#8221; urging the parent church to &#8221;create a new alignment for Anglicanism in North America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Denouncing the House of Bishops for backing the ordination in June of a gay man, the Rev. Canon V. Gene Robinson, as bishop of New Hampshire, the Rev. David H. Roseberry, rector of Christ Church in nearby Plano, said, &#8221;The Episcopal Church has begun a wayward drift that will distort the Anglican community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/10\/08\/us\/conservative-anglicans-rally-to-reorganize-church-power.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a further sign of fracture in the Episcopal Church over the ordination of an openly gay bishop, thousands of conservative American Anglicans rallied here on Tuesday at a conference that advocated radically reorganizing church authority. The meeting, called by<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40437\">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":[36,48,42,186,78,75,154,636,364,514,79,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-religion-news-commentary","category-church-history","category-global-south-churches-primates","category-instruments-of-unity","category-other-churches","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-roman-catholic","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-windsor-report-process"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40437","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=40437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}