{"id":42828,"date":"2014-02-28T16:00:27","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_times_house_of_bishops_sexuality_fudge_sticks_in_critics_throats\/"},"modified":"2014-02-28T16:00:27","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T16:00:27","slug":"church_times_house_of_bishops_sexuality_fudge_sticks_in_critics_throats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42828","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) House of Bishops&#39; Sexuality \u201d\u02dcfudge\u2019 sticks in critics\u2019 throats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Archbishop of York, Dr Sentamu, has described the House of Bishops&#8217; pastoral statement on same-sex marriage, which he signed a fortnight ago, as &#8220;Anglican fudge&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Bishops have also been challenged over the accuracy of their guidance, issued on 15 February. In it, they reiterated the ban on same-sex marriages in church, and stated that clergy may not enter into gay marriages&#8230; Several priests have publicly declared their intention to defy the Bishops.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sentamu, speaking at a meeting of Jewish and Christian students in Durham in the middle of last week, said that the Church of England&#8217;s position was that &#8220;a clergy person has a right, an expectation, to live within the teaching of the Church, but for lay people and others they should be welcomed into the Church.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2014\/28-february\/news\/uk\/sexuality-%E2%80%98fudge%E2%80%99-sticks-in-critics%E2%80%99-throats\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Archbishop of York, Dr Sentamu, has described the House of Bishops&#8217; pastoral statement on same-sex marriage, which he signed a fortnight ago, as &#8220;Anglican fudge&#8221;. The Bishops have also been challenged over the accuracy of their guidance, issued on<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42828\">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":[36,39,50,576,74,175,389,635,199,168,114,98,108,514,112,79,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42828","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-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\/42828","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=42828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}