{"id":42374,"date":"2014-02-01T19:00:54","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T19:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_uganda_archbishop_responds_to_archbp_welby_on_laws_and_justin_welbys_re\/"},"modified":"2014-02-01T19:00:54","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T19:00:54","slug":"bbc_uganda_archbishop_responds_to_archbp_welby_on_laws_and_justin_welbys_re","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42374","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Uganda archbishop responds to Archbp Welby on laws and Justin Welby&#39;s recent letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Archbishop Stanley Ntagali responded that &#8220;homosexual practice is incompatible with Scripture&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He said he hoped the Church of England would &#8220;step back from the path&#8221; it had set itself on &#8220;so the Church of Uganda will be able to maintain communion with our own Mother Church&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Archbishop Ntagali said the Church of Uganda had been encouraged that the country&#8217;s parliament had amended the Anti-Homosexuality Bill to remove the death penalty, and make other provisions of the bill less severe &#8211; all amendments which he said the Church had recommended..<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Church is a safe place for individuals, who are confused about their sexuality or struggling with sexual brokenness, to seek help and healing,&#8221; said Archbishop Ntagali.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-25993140\">Read it all<\/a> and note carefully the accompanying comments of BBC religious affairs reporter John McManus.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archbishop Stanley Ntagali responded that &#8220;homosexual practice is incompatible with Scripture&#8221;. He said he hoped the Church of England would &#8220;step back from the path&#8221; it had set itself on &#8220;so the Church of Uganda will be able to maintain<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42374\">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":[36,39,40,50,576,382,202,74,67,396,199,168,144,104,114,327,151,129,112,34,328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-justin-welby","category-africa","category-anglican-provinces","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-church-of-uganda","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-nigeria","category-politics-in-general","category-psychology","category-sexuality","category-theology","category-uganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42374","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=42374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}