{"id":51215,"date":"2015-08-14T15:15:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T15:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_times_reader_to_lose_permission_to_officiate_over_his_same-sex_marri\/"},"modified":"2015-08-14T15:15:23","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T15:15:23","slug":"church_times_reader_to_lose_permission_to_officiate_over_his_same-sex_marri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51215","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Reader to lose Permission to Officiate over his same-sex marriage plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Timm, a Reader, has described the \u201ctears and soul-searching\u201d\u009d that he endured before deciding to convert his civil partnership to marriage, knowing that this would result in the loss of his permission to officiate (PTO).<\/p>\n<p>Mr Timm, a Reader in the Howden Team Ministry in Hull, was told by the Archbishop of York, Dr Sentamu, last month, that his PTO would be revoked if he pursued his intention to convert his partnership with Mike Brown.<\/p>\n<p>Writing on the website of Changing Attitude, Mr Timm described being \u201cplaced in an impossible situation by the Church of England . . . faced with choosing between marriage or ministry\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2015\/14-august\/news\/uk\/reader-to-lose-permission-to-officiate-over-marriage-plans\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Timm, a Reader, has described the \u201ctears and soul-searching\u201d\u009d that he endured before deciding to convert his civil partnership to marriage, knowing that this would result in the loss of his permission to officiate (PTO). Mr Timm, a Reader<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51215\">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":[36,48,39,40,576,74,175,83,389,635,168,98,437,184,177,151,108,112,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51215","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-coe-bishops","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-ministry-of-the-laity","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51215","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=51215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}