{"id":45029,"date":"2014-07-18T03:58:56","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T03:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_times_swing_voters_at_general_synod_say_they_will_now_back_women_bis\/"},"modified":"2014-07-18T03:58:56","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T03:58:56","slug":"church_times_swing_voters_at_general_synod_say_they_will_now_back_women_bis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45029","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Swing voters at General Synod say they will now back women bishops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pivotal votes of a small num\u00c2\u00adber of members of the General Synod who helped to defeat the women-bishops Measure in Novem\u00c2\u00adber 2012 have swung to the Yes camp.<\/p>\n<p>The earlier Measure was lost by six votes in the House of Laity. Instrumental to the defeat were a handful of members who, despite being in favour of the consecration of women as bishops, voted against the Measure, prompted by a concern that it did not offer enough provision for those who were opposed on principle.<\/p>\n<p>Five of these members told the Church Times this week that they now planned to vote in favour.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2014\/4-july\/news\/uk\/swing-voters-say-they-will-now-back-women-bishops\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pivotal votes of a small num\u00c2\u00adber of members of the General Synod who helped to defeat the women-bishops Measure in Novem\u00c2\u00adber 2012 have swung to the Yes camp. The earlier Measure was lost by six votes in the House<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45029\">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":[36,39,74,389,635,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45029","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=45029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}