{"id":45475,"date":"2014-08-05T15:30:56","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T15:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_faces_legal_challenge_after_blocking_job_offer_priest_who_choose_sam\/"},"modified":"2014-08-05T15:30:56","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T15:30:56","slug":"church_faces_legal_challenge_after_blocking_job_offer_priest_who_choose_sam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45475","title":{"rendered":"Church faces legal challenge after blocking job offer for priest who choose same-sex marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first priest to marry his same-sex partner is to issue a legal challenge to the Church of England after his offer of a job as an NHS chaplain was withdrawn when his bishop refused the necessary permission.<\/p>\n<p>The Rev Jeremy Pemberton, who married Laurence Cunnington in April, was informed on Friday that Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS trust had withdrawn its offer of a job after Bishop Richard Inwood had refused him the official licence in the diocese of Southwell and Nottingham.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It this is not challenged,&#8221; Pemberton said on Sunday, &#8220;it will send a message to all chaplains of whom a considerable number are gay and lesbian. This is an area of law that has not been tested and needs to be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/aug\/04\/church-legal-challenge-blocking-job-offer-married-gay-priest\">Read it all<\/a> from the Guardian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first priest to marry his same-sex partner is to issue a legal challenge to the Church of England after his offer of a job as an NHS chaplain was withdrawn when his bishop refused the necessary permission. The Rev<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45475\">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":[36,48,39,40,50,576,74,175,389,199,168,114,98,435,184,177,151,108,112,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anglican-provinces","category-anthropology","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45475","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=45475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}