{"id":50046,"date":"2015-05-30T00:15:41","date_gmt":"2015-05-30T00:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/dm_mothers_fury_at_vicar_who_refused_to_baptise_her_baby_son_because_she_is\/"},"modified":"2015-05-30T00:15:41","modified_gmt":"2015-05-30T00:15:41","slug":"dm_mothers_fury_at_vicar_who_refused_to_baptise_her_baby_son_because_she_is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50046","title":{"rendered":"(DM) Mother&#39;s fury at vicar who refused to baptise her baby son because she isn&#39;t married"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Christian mother has slammed a vicar who refused to baptise her nine-month-old son because she is not married to the baby&#8217;s father.<\/p>\n<p>Heather Lawrence and her partner Jonathan, tried to arrange a service with Reverend Tim Hayes at St John&#8217;s Church in Dunkinfield, Manchester, but were told they could only have a blessing.<\/p>\n<p>The couple, who have been in a relationship for four years, were shocked by the vicar&#8217;s refusal on the grounds that were not married.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old says the only reason they haven&#8217;t had a wedding is because they cannot afford one but had hoped to have baby Roman christened in order to be accepted into the church.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3100602\/Christian-mother-hits-vicar-refused-baptise-nine-month-old-son-isn-t-married-father.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Christian mother has slammed a vicar who refused to baptise her nine-month-old son because she is not married to the baby&#8217;s father. Heather Lawrence and her partner Jonathan, tried to arrange a service with Reverend Tim Hayes at St<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50046\">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":[48,39,175,581,101,168,183,184,177,108,173,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-anthropology","category-baptism","category-children","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-sacramental-theology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50046","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=50046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}