{"id":51003,"date":"2015-07-30T18:05:35","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T18:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_message_from_primate_of_brazil_related_to_decisions_taken_by_tec_on_marri\/"},"modified":"2015-07-30T18:05:35","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T18:05:35","slug":"a_message_from_primate_of_brazil_related_to_decisions_taken_by_tec_on_marri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51003","title":{"rendered":"A message from Primate of Brazil related to decisions taken by TEC on Marriage understanding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From The Most Reverend Francisco de Assis da Silva<br \/>The Church of Brazil feels strengthened by the fact that here we are also living a broad process of reflection on the search for consensus on this issue. In our country, since 2011, the Supreme Court already recognizes the legality of civil marriage between people of same sex.<\/p>\n<p>Our Province is discussing this matter \u201d\u201c under the methodology of Indaba \u201d\u201c in all instances of the Church. Our new Prayer Book already contemplates a change of language, stabilishing the gender neutrality that is a significant step of inclusivity. This change do not requires us to celebrate matrimony between people of same sex, but we\u2019re open to the future and new pastoral requirements from our time.<\/p>\n<p>We see with joy changing processes in the churches of Canada and Scotland. We see with joy advances in discussion of the theme in the churches of England, Wales, Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ns.ieab.org.br\/2015\/07\/22\/a-message-from-primate-of-brazil-related-to-decisions-taken-by-tec-on-marriage-understanding\">Read it all<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Most Reverend Francisco de Assis da SilvaThe Church of Brazil feels strengthened by the fact that here we are also living a broad process of reflection on the search for consensus on this issue. In our country, since<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51003\">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":[36,383,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-episcopal-church-of-brazil","category-anglican-provinces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51003","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=51003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}