{"id":50382,"date":"2015-06-19T20:59:17","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T20:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/guardian_archbishop_of_canterbury_passed_the_buck_over_gay_priests_wedding\/"},"modified":"2015-06-19T20:59:17","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T20:59:17","slug":"guardian_archbishop_of_canterbury_passed_the_buck_over_gay_priests_wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50382","title":{"rendered":"[Guardian] Archbishop of Canterbury &#39;passed the buck over gay priest&#39;s wedding&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bishop has been asked if the \u201chot potato\u201d\u009d issue of a clergyman marrying his partner in a same-sex marriage was delegated by the archbishop of Canterbury, to avoid a Church of England split.<\/p>\n<p>Former acting bishop of Southwell and Nottingham Richard Inwood was asked if the Most Rev Justin Welby decided \u201cto leave it (the issue) alone, politically,\u201d\u009d in allowing individual bishops to handle such a breach of the church\u2019s rule as they saw fit.<\/p>\n<p>The bishop replied: \u201cTo paraphrase the TV programme [House of Cards], you may say that, but I couldn\u2019t possibly comment.\u201d\u009d Inwood was speaking at an employment tribunal for Canon Jeremy Pemberton, who has made a claim for discrimination against the bishop.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/jun\/17\/archbishop-canterbury-gay-priest-wedding-tribunal-anglicans\">Read it all<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bishop has been asked if the \u201chot potato\u201d\u009d issue of a clergyman marrying his partner in a same-sex marriage was delegated by the archbishop of Canterbury, to avoid a Church of England split. Former acting bishop of Southwell and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50382\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":832,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,74,389],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50382","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\/832"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}