{"id":41422,"date":"2013-12-09T23:58:32","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T23:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/archbishop_welby_interviewed_on_gay_relationships_by_ian_dale_in_march_2013\/"},"modified":"2013-12-09T23:58:32","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T23:58:32","slug":"archbishop_welby_interviewed_on_gay_relationships_by_ian_dale_in_march_2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41422","title":{"rendered":"Archbishop Welby interviewed on same sex relationships by Iain Dale in March 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script language=\"JavaScript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.americananglican.org\/assets\/audio\/audio-player.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/www.americananglican.org\/assets\/audio\/player.swf\" id=\"audioplayer1\" height=\"24\" width=\"290\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.americananglican.org\/assets\/audio\/player.swf\"><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"playerID=audioplayer1&#038;soundFile=http:\/\/www.americananglican.org\/assets\/audio\/NewArchbishopspeakstoDaleonDriveforhisfirstradiointerview21-11Mar13short.mp3\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"><param name=\"menu\" value=\"false\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/object><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Iain Dale<\/b>: You said once that you\u2019re always averse to the language of exclusion and what we\u2019re called to do is love in the same way as Jesus Christ loves us, how do you reconcile that with the church\u2019s attitude on gay marriage?<\/p>\n<p><b>Justin Welby<\/b>: I think that the problem with the gay marriage proposals is that they don\u2019t actually include people equally, it\u2019s called equal marriage, but the proposals in the Bill don\u2019t do that. I think that where there is\u201d\u00a6 I mean I know plenty of gay couples whose relationships are an example to plenty of other people and that\u2019s something that\u2019s very important, I\u2019m not saying that gay relationships are in some way\u201d\u00a6 you know that the love that there is is less than the love there is between straight couples, that would be a completely absurd thing to say. And civil partnership is a pretty\u201d\u00a6 I understand why people want that to be strengthened and made more dignified, somehow more honourable in a good way. It\u2019s not the same as marriage\u201d\u00a6<\/p>\n<p><b>Iain Dale<\/b>: But if it could be made to work in a way that\u2019s acceptable to the church you would be open to discussions on that?<\/p>\n<p><b>Justin Welby<\/b>: We are always open to discussions, we\u2019ve been open to discussion, we\u2019re discussing at the moment. The historic teaching of the church around the world, and this is where I remember that I\u2019ve got 80 million people round the world who are Anglicans, not just the one million in this country, has been that marriage in the traditional sense is between a man and woman for life.   And it\u2019s such a radical change to change that.<\/p>\n<p>I think we need to find ways of affirming the value of the love that is in other relationships without taking away from the value of marriage as an institution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/new.kendallharmon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/index.php\/t19\/article\/47865\">From here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iain Dale: You said once that you\u2019re always averse to the language of exclusion and what we\u2019re called to do is love in the same way as Jesus Christ loves us, how do you reconcile that with the church\u2019s attitude<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41422\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":832,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,74,389],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41422","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\/832"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}