{"id":51690,"date":"2015-09-19T20:30:16","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T20:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_times_archbishop_morgan_cautious_after_majority_vote_in_favour_of_sa\/"},"modified":"2015-09-19T20:30:16","modified_gmt":"2015-09-19T20:30:16","slug":"church_times_archbishop_morgan_cautious_after_majority_vote_in_favour_of_sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51690","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Archbishop Morgan cautious after majority vote in favour of same-sex marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Governing Body of the Church in Wales has voted narrowly in favour of allowing same-sex couples to marry in the Church. But it appears that the non-binding, advisory-only secret ballot has not produced enough votes in favour to persuade the Bishops to frame new legislation.<\/p>\n<p>The vote on Thursday does not constitute a decision of the Governing Body. Instead, the results \u201d\u201d and the two-and-a-half-hour debate that preceded the vote \u201d\u201d will be used to guide the Province\u2019s Bench of Bishops when it meets to discuss the issue in October.<\/p>\n<p>Three options were under consideration: the first would mean no change to the Church\u2019s current teaching and practice on marriage and partnerships; the second would allow same-sex unions to be blessed in the Church in Wales; the third would enable same-sex couples to be married in church.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2015\/18-september\/news\/uk\/archbishop-morgan-cautious-after-majority-vote-in-favour-of-same-sex-marriage\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Governing Body of the Church in Wales has voted narrowly in favour of allowing same-sex couples to marry in the Church. But it appears that the non-binding, advisory-only secret ballot has not produced enough votes in favour to persuade<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51690\">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":[36,39,40,50,576,74,175,405,199,168,177,151,108,112,34,169,323],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","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-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\/51690","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=51690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}