{"id":41415,"date":"2013-12-06T16:30:12","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T16:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_times_pilling_report_responses_too_far_or_not_far_enough\/"},"modified":"2013-12-06T16:30:12","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T16:30:12","slug":"church_times_pilling_report_responses_too_far_or_not_far_enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41415","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Pilling Report Responses:  too far or not far enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The report of the House of Bishops Working Group on Human Sexuality, chaired by Sir Joseph Pilling, has prompted a wide range of response and criticism.<\/p>\n<p>Among those who welcomed the report were groups that lobby for greater acceptance of gay and lesbian people in the Church.<\/p>\n<p>The Revd Benny Hazlehurst, the secretary of the Accepting Evangelicals group, issued a statement: &#8220;We welcome this clear recognition of diversity in biblical understanding and commend the report to the whole Church. We also welcome these small steps towards church services for same-sex couples.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2013\/6-december\/news\/uk\/responses-too-far-or-not-far-enough\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The report of the House of Bishops Working Group on Human Sexuality, chaired by Sir Joseph Pilling, has prompted a wide range of response and criticism. Among those who welcomed the report were groups that lobby for greater acceptance of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41415\">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":[36,39,50,576,74,175,389,199,168,114,98,108,514,112,79,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41415","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-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","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\/41415","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=41415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}