{"id":49860,"date":"2015-05-18T02:00:41","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T02:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ch_of_scotland_plan_for_same-sex_partnered_ministers_offers_possible_templa\/"},"modified":"2015-05-18T02:00:41","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T02:00:41","slug":"ch_of_scotland_plan_for_same-sex_partnered_ministers_offers_possible_templa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49860","title":{"rendered":"Ch of Scotland plan for same-sex partnered ministers offers possible \u201d\u02dctemplate\u2019 for Anglicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South of the border, the Church of England already allows clerics to form civil partnerships as long as they claim to be celibate. But the Church of Scotland\u2019s approach does not require celibacy.<\/p>\n<p>The Very Rev David Arnott, who coordinates the General Assembly\u2019s business, said that although the Presbyterian structure of the Church of Scotland is different from that of Anglican churches, he hoped the plan could offer a \u201ctemplate\u201d\u009d for the Church of England to consider.<\/p>\n<p>He told BBC Radio 4\u2019s Sunday programme: \u201cWe are not going to change people\u2019s minds, we have to come to a way of living together with our differences and living with our diversity and I hope that we\u2019re able to do that.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/religion\/11611563\/Church-of-Scotland-plan-for-gay-ministers-offers-possible-template-for-Anglicans.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South of the border, the Church of England already allows clerics to form civil partnerships as long as they claim to be celibate. But the Church of Scotland\u2019s approach does not require celibacy. The Very Rev David Arnott, who coordinates<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49860\">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":[36,48,39,50,576,74,175,389,199,168,435,184,177,108,326,112,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","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-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-scotland","category-sexuality","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49860","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=49860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}