{"id":43837,"date":"2014-04-29T18:00:36","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T18:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/london_times-were_out_of_touch_on_same-sex_marriage_says_senior_woman_cler\/"},"modified":"2014-04-29T18:00:36","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T18:00:36","slug":"london_times-were_out_of_touch_on_same-sex_marriage_says_senior_woman_cler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43837","title":{"rendered":"(London) Times&#8211;We\u2019re out of touch on same-sex marriage, says senior woman cleric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dean of York, the Very Rev Vivienne Faull, said the Church had a habit of waiting until something was \u201cblindingly obvious\u201d\u009d to the rest of society before it changed its own mind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe blessing of a gay relationship is not theologically a problem for me personally, but I\u2019m under the discipline of the Church and I keep the rules,\u201d\u009d she told Radio Times. She has never formally blessed a gay partnership but has found ways of meeting the need for celebration within the Church\u2019s rules.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen people have come to me in the past and said, \u201d\u02dcWe\u2019re looking for a way of celebrating our civil partnership, how shall we do it?\u2019, we\u2019ve found ways of doing it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/faith\/article4075348.ece\">Read it all<\/a> (subscription required).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dean of York, the Very Rev Vivienne Faull, said the Church had a habit of waiting until something was \u201cblindingly obvious\u201d\u009d to the rest of society before it changed its own mind. \u201cThe blessing of a gay relationship is<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43837\">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":[36,48,39,50,576,74,175,389,199,168,114,98,435,184,129,108,514,112,79,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43837","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-anthropology","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-psychology","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\/43837","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=43837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}