{"id":48226,"date":"2015-02-04T18:00:48","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T18:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/episcopal_bishop_kee_sloan_says_hell_allow_same-sex_blessings_in_alabama\/"},"modified":"2015-02-04T18:00:48","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T18:00:48","slug":"episcopal_bishop_kee_sloan_says_hell_allow_same-sex_blessings_in_alabama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48226","title":{"rendered":"Episcopal Bishop Kee Sloan says he&#39;ll allow same-sex blessings in Alabama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop Kee Sloan, head of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama, voted in favor of a new ritual of blessing for same-sex unions that the Episcopal Church approved during its 2012 General Convention.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, he said he wouldn&#8217;t allow blessings of same-sex unions in Alabama churches. It was too divisive and the state wasn&#8217;t ready, he said. Now, Alabama is ready, he said. &#8220;I just needed to wait for the right time,&#8221; Sloan told AL.com.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is not marriage, and has nothing to do with the federal judge in Mobile or the Supreme Court,&#8221; Sloan said. &#8220;This is blessing a same-sex union.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.al.com\/living\/index.ssf\/2015\/02\/real_smiles_real_tears_episcop.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop Kee Sloan, head of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama, voted in favor of a new ritual of blessing for same-sex unions that the Episcopal Church approved during its 2012 General Convention. At the time, he said he wouldn&#8217;t allow<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48226\">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":[36,39,576,175,66,168,114,108,514,112,79,372,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anthropology","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-religion-culture","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-tec-bishops","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48226","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=48226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}