{"id":43430,"date":"2014-04-06T21:02:44","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T21:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_church_times_art-_on_archbp_welbys_comments_on_same-sex_marriage_and_afri\/"},"modified":"2014-04-06T21:02:44","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T21:02:44","slug":"a_church_times_art-_on_archbp_welbys_comments_on_same-sex_marriage_and_afri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43430","title":{"rendered":"A Church Times Art. on Archbp Welby&#39;s Comments on Same-Sex Marriage and African Killings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christians are being killed in Africa as a consequence of liberal attitudes towards homosexuality in the United States and Britain, the Archbishop of Canterbury suggested on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on LBC radio about his opposition to same-sex marriage, he said: &#8220;I&#8217;ve stood by gravesides in Africa of a group of Christians who had been attacked because of something that had happened far, far away in America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time that Archbishop Welby has publicly voiced his fears for Christians overseas as a key factor in the Bishops&#8217; opposition to same-sex marriage and the blessing of gay couples in church. &#8220;The problem we face is that everything we say here goes round the world, for reasons of history and media and all that. And so we don&#8217;t make policy on the hoof,&#8221; he said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2014\/4-april\/news\/uk\/welby-links-gay-marriage-with-african-killings\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christians are being killed in Africa as a consequence of liberal attitudes towards homosexuality in the United States and Britain, the Archbishop of Canterbury suggested on Friday. Speaking on LBC radio about his opposition to same-sex marriage, he said: &#8220;I&#8217;ve<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43430\">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":[36,39,50,576,382,202,175,67,168,119,114,98,112,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-justin-welby","category-africa","category-anthropology","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-globalization","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-sexuality","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43430","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=43430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}