{"id":41412,"date":"2013-12-06T16:00:05","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T16:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/jeff_walton-virginia_tec_bishop_conducts_same-sex_blessing\/"},"modified":"2013-12-06T16:00:05","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T16:00:05","slug":"jeff_walton-virginia_tec_bishop_conducts_same-sex_blessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41412","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Walton&#8211;Virginia TEC Bishop Conducts Same-Sex Blessing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop Shannon Johnston of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia has presided over the blessing of a same-sex union, according to an Arlington clergywoman.<\/p>\n<p>Mother Leslie J. Hague, rector of St. Michael\u2019s Episcopal Church in Arlington was joined in \u201choly union\u201d\u009d with her partner, Katie Casteel, at Episcopal Church of the Holy Cross in Dunn Loring on November 23. The afternoon blessing ceremony followed Hague and Casteel\u2019s civil marriage in nearby Washington, DC exactly one year before. Same-sex marriages are not recognized by the Commonwealth of Virginia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/juicyecumenism.com\/2013\/12\/04\/virginia-episcopal-bishop-conducts-same-sex-blessing\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop Shannon Johnston of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia has presided over the blessing of a same-sex union, according to an Arlington clergywoman. Mother Leslie J. Hague, rector of St. Michael\u2019s Episcopal Church in Arlington was joined in \u201choly union\u201d\u009d<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41412\">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":[36,48,175,66,168,183,435,184,514,79,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-anthropology","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","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\/41412","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=41412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}