{"id":46383,"date":"2014-10-15T17:30:30","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T17:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/women_bishops_2-bbc_art-_on_women_bishops_change_being_approved_in_the_hou\/"},"modified":"2014-10-15T17:30:30","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T17:30:30","slug":"women_bishops_2-bbc_art-_on_women_bishops_change_being_approved_in_the_hou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46383","title":{"rendered":"Women Bishops (2)&#8211;BBC art. on Women bishops change being approved in the House of Lords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allowing women to become bishops is &#8220;long overdue&#8221;, the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has said, as the change was approved by the Lords.<\/p>\n<p>Peers accepted the General Synod proposal, passed by the Synod in July, without a vote.<\/p>\n<p>It is expected to be approved by MPs next week, allowing it to become law.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in the Lords, the archbishop urged the government to bring in legislation to allow women bishops to join him in the upper house.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-politics-29618178\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allowing women to become bishops is &#8220;long overdue&#8221;, the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has said, as the change was approved by the Lords. Peers accepted the General Synod proposal, passed by the Synod in July, without a vote. It<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46383\">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":[36,74,389,635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46383","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=46383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}