{"id":41294,"date":"2013-11-29T16:45:29","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T16:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_times_pilling_report_opens_the_door_to_same_sex_blessings_in_church\/"},"modified":"2013-11-29T16:45:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T16:45:29","slug":"church_times_pilling_report_opens_the_door_to_same_sex_blessings_in_church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41294","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Pilling Report opens the door to same sex blessings in church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clergy should be permitted to provide a public service to mark same-sex relationships, a House of Bishops working group has recommended.<\/p>\n<p>The recommendations in The Report of the House of Bishops Working Group on Human Sexuality, known as &#8220;the Pilling report&#8221; after the group&#8217;s chairman, Sir Joseph Pilling, are modest. They speak of the need for &#8220;pastoral accommodation&#8221;, but do not propose any change in the Church&#8217;s teaching on sexual conduct. Although the report does not speak of &#8220;blessing&#8221; gay relationships, Sir Joseph said on Thursday that he would not write a letter of complaint to a journalist who used such a term.<\/p>\n<p>Other recommendations include repentance for homophobia within the Church, the avoidance of &#8220;intrusive questioning&#8221;, and further debate&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2013\/29-november\/news\/uk\/pilling-opens-door-to-gay-blessings-in-church\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clergy should be permitted to provide a public service to mark same-sex relationships, a House of Bishops working group has recommended. The recommendations in The Report of the House of Bishops Working Group on Human Sexuality, known as &#8220;the Pilling<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41294\">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":[36,74,175,389,635,168,514,79,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-provinces","category-anthropology","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41294","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=41294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}