{"id":47453,"date":"2014-12-19T17:00:57","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T17:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_women_bishops_to_be_fast-tracked_into_the_house_of_lords\/"},"modified":"2014-12-19T17:00:57","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T17:00:57","slug":"bbc_women_bishops_to_be_fast-tracked_into_the_house_of_lords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47453","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Women bishops to be fast-tracked into the House of Lords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Women bishops would be fast-tracked into the House of Lords, under government proposals set out&#8230; [yesterday].<\/p>\n<p>Ministers want to change the law to allow female bishops to take up the &#8220;spiritual&#8221; seats in the Lords, when they become available.<\/p>\n<p>Usually they are allocated to the most senior or longest-serving bishops.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Reverend Libby Lane was announced as the first female bishop for the Church of England &#8211; a month after a historic change to canon law.<\/p>\n<p>The general synod voted to back plans for female bishops in July and formally adopted legislation on 17 November.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-politics-30529552\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women bishops would be fast-tracked into the House of Lords, under government proposals set out&#8230; [yesterday]. Ministers want to change the law to allow female bishops to take up the &#8220;spiritual&#8221; seats in the Lords, when they become available. Usually<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47453\">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":[36,39,40,50,74,389,635,199,151,108,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47453","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=47453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}