{"id":43931,"date":"2014-05-05T15:30:17","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T15:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/in_canada_council_of_general_synod_hears_concerns_about_commission\/"},"modified":"2014-05-05T15:30:17","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T15:30:17","slug":"in_canada_council_of_general_synod_hears_concerns_about_commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43931","title":{"rendered":"In Canada, Council of General Synod hears concerns about commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a progress report to the Council of General Synod (CoGS) on the early work of the Commission on the Marriage Canon, chair Canon Robert Falby, noted that there had been \u201csome controversy\u201d\u009d over the membership of the committee after it was announced in early 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Critics have said that the commission does not have a balance of members who are both for and against the resolution passed at General Synod 2013, which asked CoGS to prepare and present a motion to change the church\u2019s Canon 21 on marriage \u201cto allow the marriage of same-sex couples in the same way as opposite-sex couples\u201d\u009d prior to the next General Synod in 2016.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanjournal.com\/articles\/cogs-hears-concerns-about-commission\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a progress report to the Council of General Synod (CoGS) on the early work of the Commission on the Marriage Canon, chair Canon Robert Falby, noted that there had been \u201csome controversy\u201d\u009d over the membership of the committee after<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43931\">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":[36,39,388,74,98,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-anglican-church-of-canada","category-anglican-provinces","category-marriage-family","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43931","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=43931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}