{"id":46233,"date":"2014-10-06T21:30:30","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T21:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/telegraph_some_anglicans_in_the_same-sex_marriage_debate_sign_love_letter_t\/"},"modified":"2014-10-06T21:30:30","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T21:30:30","slug":"telegraph_some_anglicans_in_the_same-sex_marriage_debate_sign_love_letter_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46233","title":{"rendered":"(Telegraph) Some Anglicans in the same-sex marriage debate sign \u201d\u02dclove letter\u2019 to Bishops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 300 Anglican priests, parishioners and other Christians have signed an open \u201clove letter\u201d\u009d to bishops in the Church of England who are secretly gay urging them to \u201ccome out\u201d\u009d about their sexuality.<\/p>\n<p>In one of the most unusual petitions ever addressed to the leadership of the established church, they have issued a direct plea to members of the episcopate who are gay or bisexual to have the \u201ccourage and conviction\u201d\u009d to acknowledge it publicly.<\/p>\n<p>The signatories, who include at least 160 priests and several members of the Church\u2019s governing General Synod, pledge to \u201cwelcome and embrace\u201d\u009d those bishops who decide to go public but strongly object to any attempt to involuntarily \u201cout\u201d\u009d anyone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/religion\/11139188\/Anglicans-sign-mass-love-letter-to-gay-bishops-urging-them-to-come-out.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 300 Anglican priests, parishioners and other Christians have signed an open \u201clove letter\u201d\u009d to bishops in the Church of England who are secretly gay urging them to \u201ccome out\u201d\u009d about their sexuality. In one of the most unusual<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46233\">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":[36,39,50,576,74,389,635,199,98,89,108,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-marriage-family","category-media","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46233","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=46233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}