{"id":51689,"date":"2015-09-19T20:10:05","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T20:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_in_wales_votes_yes_for_for_same-sex_marriage_but_not_by_enough_to_pa\/"},"modified":"2015-09-19T20:10:05","modified_gmt":"2015-09-19T20:10:05","slug":"church_in_wales_votes_yes_for_for_same-sex_marriage_but_not_by_enough_to_pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51689","title":{"rendered":"Church in Wales votes yes for for same-sex marriage but not by enough to pass a bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Same sex marriages should be conducted by the Church in Wales its governing body believes, but results of a secret ballot held were too narrow for change to be considered now.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Church in Wales Governing Body voted 61 in favour of gay marriages in church, nine in favour of blessing gay partnerships and 50 for making no change.<\/p>\n<p>The result shows a majority in favour but does not constitute a decision and bishops are unlikely to draft a Bill for gay marriage as any such Bill requires a two thirds majority of each of the three houses the Archbishop of Wales Dr Barry Morgan said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/news\/wales-news\/church-wales-votes-yes-gay-10078543#ICID=sharebar_twitter\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Same sex marriages should be conducted by the Church in Wales its governing body believes, but results of a secret ballot held were too narrow for change to be considered now. Members of the Church in Wales Governing Body voted<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51689\">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":[36,48,39,40,50,576,74,175,405,199,168,98,437,435,184,177,151,108,112,34,169,323],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51689","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-provinces","category-anthropology","category-church-of-wales","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-ministry-of-the-laity","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","category-wales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51689","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=51689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}