{"id":50216,"date":"2015-06-09T18:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T18:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/australias_anglican_leader_seeks_conscience_safeguard_on_same-sex_marriage\/"},"modified":"2015-06-09T18:00:30","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T18:00:30","slug":"australias_anglican_leader_seeks_conscience_safeguard_on_same-sex_marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50216","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#39;s Anglican leader seeks conscience safeguard on same-sex marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Freier wrote to Mr Abbott and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten because Parliament may soon consider amending the Marriage Act. Mr Shorten is bringing a bill to introduce same-sex marriage, and two other bills are also planned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShould changes to the Marriage Act be legislated, I urge on behalf of the Anglican Church that there be provision made for decisions of conscience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMinisters of religion recognised by a church or other religious body must have the right to refuse to solemnise a marriage if in doing so that would contravene his or her religious beliefs or the religious beliefs of the church or other religious body,\u201d\u009d Dr Freier wrote.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicancg.org.au\/news.php\/175\/anglican-leader-seeks-conscience-safeguard-on-same-sex-marriage\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Freier wrote to Mr Abbott and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten because Parliament may soon consider amending the Marriage Act. Mr Shorten is bringing a bill to introduce same-sex marriage, and two other bills are also planned. \u201cShould changes to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50216\">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":[36,48,39,40,50,576,395,74,175,204,168,114,183,98,184,177,151,108,112,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anglican-church-of-australia","category-anglican-provinces","category-anthropology","category-australia-nz","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-marriage-family","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50216","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=50216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}