{"id":44095,"date":"2014-05-15T16:00:11","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nz_herald_on_the_nz_synod_decision-_anglican_church_approves_same-sex_rela\/"},"modified":"2014-05-15T16:00:11","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T16:00:11","slug":"nz_herald_on_the_nz_synod_decision-_anglican_church_approves_same-sex_rela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44095","title":{"rendered":"NZ Herald on the NZ Synod Decision&#8211; Anglican church approves same-sex relationships, not marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Anglican Church has agreed to look at ways same-sex relationships can be part of church life, but will not marry gay couples.<\/p>\n<p>The church&#8217;s General Synod, held at Waitangi this week, has decided to uphold the &#8220;traditional doctrine of marriage&#8221; but work towards ways to recognise committed same sex relationships.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the church said the Synod recognised the pain to the LGTB community, and apologised unreservedly for the times the church had contributed to that pain.<\/p>\n<p>A working party will now be appointed to look at options for same gender blessings, while mindful gay marriage is still unlawful in some Pacific countries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/news\/article.cfm?c_id=1&#038;objectid=11255410\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Anglican Church has agreed to look at ways same-sex relationships can be part of church life, but will not marry gay couples. The church&#8217;s General Synod, held at Waitangi this week, has decided to uphold the &#8220;traditional doctrine of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44095\">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":[36,399,74,514,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-church-in-aotearoa-new-zealand-and-polynesia","category-anglican-provinces","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44095","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=44095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}