{"id":51065,"date":"2015-08-05T00:00:33","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T00:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/anniston_alabama_episcopal_churches_face_decisions_on_same-sex_marriage\/"},"modified":"2015-08-05T00:00:33","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T00:00:33","slug":"anniston_alabama_episcopal_churches_face_decisions_on_same-sex_marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51065","title":{"rendered":"Anniston, Alabama, Episcopal churches face decisions on same-sex marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During interviews Monday, leaders at Anniston\u2019s two Episcopal churches expressed openness to the LGBT community. Lee Shafer, rector at Grace Episcopal, and Chris Hartley, rector at St. Michael and All Angels, explained the solemnization of same-sex marriages within their respective congregations would depend on discussions between the vestry \u201d\u201d the congregational governing body \u201d\u201d and the pastor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur challenge,\u201d\u009d Hartley said, \u201cis to create a liturgical practice that honors and respects our LGBT brothers and sisters while not in any way alienating our brothers and sisters who are against same-sex marriage.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>He paused.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf that sounds difficult &#8230; I mean, how do you do that? It sounds more impossible than it does difficult.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.annistonstar.com\/news\/anniston-episcopal-churches-face-decisions-on-same-sex-marriage\/article_5fa865b2-3a4b-11e5-9562-0b552acbbecd.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During interviews Monday, leaders at Anniston\u2019s two Episcopal churches expressed openness to the LGBT community. Lee Shafer, rector at Grace Episcopal, and Chris Hartley, rector at St. Michael and All Angels, explained the solemnization of same-sex marriages within their respective<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51065\">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":[36,48,39,576,175,66,168,183,98,435,184,436,177,108,514,112,79,380,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51065","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-liturgy-music-worship","category-marriage-family","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-care","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-tec-parishes","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51065","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=51065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}