{"id":45001,"date":"2014-07-09T01:05:28","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T01:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/tec_bishop_grants_permission_for_blessings_of_same-sex_relationships_in_new\/"},"modified":"2014-07-09T01:05:28","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T01:05:28","slug":"tec_bishop_grants_permission_for_blessings_of_same-sex_relationships_in_new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45001","title":{"rendered":"TEC Bishop grants permission for blessings of same-sex relationships in new Diocese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bishop granted permission Tuesday for priests to bless committed relationships of same-sex couples in the Episcopal Church in South Carolina, a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>The Right Rev. Charles G. vonRosenburg authorized the use of &#8220;The Witnessing and Blessing of a Lifelong Covenant,&#8221; giving permission to priests to respond to couples who are in committed relationships, including those who have been married in states where same-sex marriage is allowed, according to Holly Behre, Director of Communications for the Episcopal Church of South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.live5news.com\/story\/25966290\/episcopal-bishop-grants-permission-for-blessings-of-same-sex-relationships\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bishop granted permission Tuesday for priests to bless committed relationships of same-sex couples in the Episcopal Church in South Carolina, a spokesperson said. The Right Rev. Charles G. vonRosenburg authorized the use of &#8220;The Witnessing and Blessing of a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45001\">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":[36,39,54,576,66,98,108,514,112,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-south-carolina","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-marriage-family","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\/45001","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=45001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}