{"id":505,"date":"2007-06-19T22:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T22:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/from_the_cbc_anglicans_face_divisive_vote_on_gay_unions\/"},"modified":"2007-06-19T22:01:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-19T22:01:00","slug":"from_the_cbc_anglicans_face_divisive_vote_on_gay_unions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=505","title":{"rendered":"From the CBC: Anglicans face divisive vote on gay unions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the world&#8217;s Anglican churches have openly opposed sanctifying same-sex marriages, arguing that such blessings defy scripture.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we go through with this, we&#8217;re going to be tearing the fabric of the Anglican community worldwide at its deepest level,&#8221; Calgary-based delegate Sheila Vanderputten told CBC News.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The primates have really been strong in telling us that we may have to choose to walk apart if we go against our 2000 years plus of history of Christianity according to scripture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, delegates will vote on a &#8220;local parish&#8221; option. If it passes, Anglican priests would be allowed to choose whether their individual parish will bless a same-sex couple.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/story\/2007\/06\/19\/anglican-samesex-070619.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the world&#8217;s Anglican churches have openly opposed sanctifying same-sex marriages, arguing that such blessings defy scripture. &#8220;If we go through with this, we&#8217;re going to be tearing the fabric of the Anglican community worldwide at its deepest level,&#8221;<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=505\">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":[36,388,74,514,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-church-of-canada","category-anglican-provinces","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","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=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}