{"id":45025,"date":"2014-07-10T15:00:09","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/london_times_former_archbishop_rowan_williams_attacks_anglicans_for_anti-ga\/"},"modified":"2014-07-10T15:00:09","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T15:00:09","slug":"london_times_former_archbishop_rowan_williams_attacks_anglicans_for_anti-ga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45025","title":{"rendered":"([London] Times) Former Archbishop Rowan Williams attacks Anglicans for \u201d\u02dcanti-gay rhetoric\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The church, now led by the Most Rev Justin Welby, continues to oppose gay marriage and requires its gay clergy to refrain from sexual relations.<\/p>\n<p>In an updated version of his biography, Rowan\u2019s Rule, to be released next week, Lord Williams is asked by the author Rupert Shortt whether the church\u2019s current position needs to change. He replies: \u201cLet me just say that I think the present situation doesn\u2019t look very sustainable. I\u2019m afraid it\u2019s just a very unstable settlement at present.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>He also says: \u201cThe difficulty of the last few years, I think, has been some bits of the Anglican Communion really seemed to move back on this. The rhetoric of anti-gay violence is actually worse in some contexts than it was ten years ago.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/faith\/article4143198.ece\">Read it all<\/a> (subscription required).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The church, now led by the Most Rev Justin Welby, continues to oppose gay marriage and requires its gay clergy to refrain from sexual relations. In an updated version of his biography, Rowan\u2019s Rule, to be released next week, Lord<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45025\">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":[36,39,381,175,67,92,168,119,108,79,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-rowan-williams","category-anthropology","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-books","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-globalization","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45025","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=45025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}