{"id":41388,"date":"2013-12-05T02:28:35","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T02:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/fulcrum_response_to_the_pilling_report\/"},"modified":"2013-12-05T02:28:35","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T02:28:35","slug":"fulcrum_response_to_the_pilling_report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41388","title":{"rendered":"Fulcrum Response to the Pilling Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In particular, in the light of the Dissenting Statement, we express the following concerns about aspects of the Report:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Although the church\u2019s teaching is upheld, its theological and biblical basis is not clearly articulated and there appears to be a willingness to separate teaching and practice in a way which threatens incoherence and charges of hypocrisy.<\/p>\n<p>The emphasis on the qualities of a relationship without clear reference to the gift of marriage fails to do justice to Scripture and tradition in relation to both sexual same-sex relationships and heterosexual cohabitation (para 148).<\/p>\n<p>The recommendation \u201cto mark the formation of a permanent same sex relationship in a public service\u201d\u009d and to leave the form of this to the discretion of the parish priest risks undermining the unity of the church\u2019s teaching and practice and our ecclesiology. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk\/articles\/fulcrum-response-to-the-pilling-report-2\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In particular, in the light of the Dissenting Statement, we express the following concerns about aspects of the Report: Although the church\u2019s teaching is upheld, its theological and biblical basis is not clearly articulated and there appears to be a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41388\">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":[36,39,50,576,74,175,389,635,199,168,98,108,514,112,79,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41388","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-anthropology","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-religion-culture","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41388","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=41388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}