{"id":45449,"date":"2014-08-04T01:00:56","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T01:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ch-_today_new_study_claims_one_in_200_british_churchgoers_are_in_same-sex_r\/"},"modified":"2014-08-04T01:00:56","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T01:00:56","slug":"ch-_today_new_study_claims_one_in_200_british_churchgoers_are_in_same-sex_r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45449","title":{"rendered":"(Ch. Today) New study claims One in 200 British churchgoers are in same-sex relationships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the rows and debates that have dominated for the past few years, one image of Britain&#8217;s Christians is of a people obsessed with rules around sex and with stopping people from having sex, especially when it is gay sex or sex outside marriage.<\/p>\n<p>But new research strong support for the physical side of love among churchgoers. And they also seem to be more open to same-sex relationships than might perhaps have been imagined from their churches&#8217; stance on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>One in 200 regular churchgoers have entered a formal relationship with someone of the same sex, according to research published this week.<\/p>\n<p>A survey conducted by Christian Research for Christian Today found that 0.6 per cent of churchgoers are in a civil partnership, slightly more than the number cohabiting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/article\/one.in.200.churchgoers.in.same.sex.relationships\/39175.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the rows and debates that have dominated for the past few years, one image of Britain&#8217;s Christians is of a people obsessed with rules around sex and with stopping people from having sex, especially when it is gay sex<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45449\">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":[39,50,576,175,199,168,177,108,112,109,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anthropology","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","category-sociology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45449","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=45449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}