{"id":51175,"date":"2015-08-12T01:15:10","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T01:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/tel-_c_of_e_lay_preacher_will_be_subject_to_discipline_should_he_marry_his_\/"},"modified":"2015-08-12T01:15:10","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T01:15:10","slug":"tel-_c_of_e_lay_preacher_will_be_subject_to_discipline_should_he_marry_his_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51175","title":{"rendered":"(Tel.) C of E lay preacher will be subject to discipline should he &#34; marry his male partner&#34;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Church of England lay preacher has disclosed that he is preparing to be expelled from ministry to marry his male partner.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Timm said he had been forced to \u201cchoose between marriage or ministry\u201d\u009d by the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, but is ready to be stripped of his position in the Church in order to tie the knot.<br \/>\nMr Timm and his partner, Mike, who live near Howden, East Yorkshire, have been in a civil partnership for six years but are planning to convert it to marriage in September, in open defiance of a ban on same-sex weddings in the Church of England.<\/p>\n<p>The 59-year-old licensed reader, who leads services in six churches around Howden, was faced with the stark choice during a in a face-to-face meeting with Dr Sentamu last month at which he discussed his plans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/religion\/11796568\/Gay-Anglican-preacher-forced-to-choose-between-marriage-or-ministry.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Church of England lay preacher has disclosed that he is preparing to be expelled from ministry to marry his male partner. Jeremy Timm said he had been forced to \u201cchoose between marriage or ministry\u201d\u009d by the Archbishop of York,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51175\">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":[36,48,39,40,576,74,175,83,389,168,98,184,177,151,108,112,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anglican-provinces","category-anthropology","category-archbishop-of-york-john-sentamu","category-church-of-england-coe","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51175","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=51175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}