{"id":50839,"date":"2015-07-16T18:00:15","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T18:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/tec_bishop_of_oklahoma_discusses_general_convention_same-sex_marriage_vote\/"},"modified":"2015-07-16T18:00:15","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T18:00:15","slug":"tec_bishop_of_oklahoma_discusses_general_convention_same-sex_marriage_vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50839","title":{"rendered":"TEC Bishop of Oklahoma discusses General Convention Same-Sex Marriage Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Bishop  Ed] Konieczky said he voted against a related measure that calls for a change in the the denomination\u2019s canonical definition of marriage as a \u201cunion of a man and a woman.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>He said the resolution, which was eventually approved, calls for altering the current canon language to \u201cgender-neutral language,\u201d\u009d replacing \u201ca man and a woman\u201d\u009d with \u201cboth parties.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>In his letter to the Oklahoma diocese on the Sunday after the denomination\u2019s vote on gay marriage, Konieczky said he voted against this language alteration because it places the denomination\u2019s canon in conflict with language used in their Book of Common Prayer and the denomination\u2019s constitution&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Konieczky said he did not think the denomination had done the necessary theological work to make the switch to gender-neutral language.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsok.com\/oklahomas-episcopal-leader-discusses-denominations-gay-marriage-vote\/article\/5433169\/?page=2\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Bishop Ed] Konieczky said he voted against a related measure that calls for a change in the the denomination\u2019s canonical definition of marriage as a \u201cunion of a man and a woman.\u201d\u009d He said the resolution, which was eventually approved,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50839\">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":[36,48,39,576,175,66,168,378,114,183,98,184,177,108,112,372,371,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anthropology","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-general-convention","category-law-legal-issues","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-marriage-family","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","category-tec-bishops","category-tec-polity-canons","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50839","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=50839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}