{"id":43312,"date":"2014-03-30T02:30:20","date_gmt":"2014-03-30T02:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bishop_holtam_of_salisbury_congratulates_and_prays_for_same-sex_couples_get\/"},"modified":"2014-03-30T02:30:20","modified_gmt":"2014-03-30T02:30:20","slug":"bishop_holtam_of_salisbury_congratulates_and_prays_for_same-sex_couples_get","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43312","title":{"rendered":"Bishop  Holtam of Salisbury Congratulates and Prays for Same-Sex Couples Getting Married"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Right Revd Nicholas Holtam, Bishop of Salisbury, has congratulated same-sex couples who will be getting married from&#8230; [Saturday 29 march 2014] and assured them of his prayers.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Nicholas said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTomorrow, the first same-sex civil marriages will take place in this country. This is a new reality being undertaken by people who wish their relationships to have a formal status which embodies a commitment to them being faithful, loving and lifelong. These are virtues which the Church of England wants to see maximised in society. I therefore congratulate those who are getting married, assure them of my prayers, and wish them well in all that lies ahead.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salisbury.anglican.org\/whos-who\/bishops\/the-bishop-of-salisbury\/sermons-articles-and-media\/bishop-congratulates-and-prays-for-same-sex-couples-getting-married\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Right Revd Nicholas Holtam, Bishop of Salisbury, has congratulated same-sex couples who will be getting married from&#8230; [Saturday 29 march 2014] and assured them of his prayers. Bishop Nicholas said: \u201cTomorrow, the first same-sex civil marriages will take place<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43312\">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":[36,48,39,50,576,74,389,635,199,114,98,184,108,514,112,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43312","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=43312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}