{"id":51435,"date":"2015-09-04T14:40:07","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T14:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bishop_john_parkes-same-sex_marriage_in_australia_has_become_inevitable\/"},"modified":"2015-09-04T14:40:07","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T14:40:07","slug":"bishop_john_parkes-same-sex_marriage_in_australia_has_become_inevitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51435","title":{"rendered":"Bishop John Parkes&#8211;&#34;same-sex marriage in Australia has become inevitable&#34;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wangaratta&#8217;s bishop has become the country\u2019s first senior Anglican cleric publicly to recognise that the legalisation of same-sex marriage in Australia has become inevitable.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop John Parkes \u201d\u201c a former barrister \u201d\u201c has told the Chronicle that he believes the country has \u201cgrown up\u201d\u009d and that the federal government will be bound within a relatively short time to change the Marriage Act to enable people of the same gender to marry.<\/p>\n<p>He admits that the challenge of such a move for religious faiths will be complex \u201d\u201c but does not believe that gay marriage will become \u201ca betrayal of the Gospel or the end of the world\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wangarattachronicle.com.au\/2015\/09\/04\/bishop-breaks-ground\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wangaratta&#8217;s bishop has become the country\u2019s first senior Anglican cleric publicly to recognise that the legalisation of same-sex marriage in Australia has become inevitable. Bishop John Parkes \u201d\u201c a former barrister \u201d\u201c has told the Chronicle that he believes the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51435\">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":[36,48,39,40,50,576,395,74,175,204,168,114,98,435,184,177,151,108,112,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anglican-church-of-australia","category-anglican-provinces","category-anthropology","category-australia-nz","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","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\/51435","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=51435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}