{"id":51870,"date":"2015-10-01T01:18:50","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T01:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/abc_aus-_article_on_same-sex_marriage_and_religious_freedom_in_australia\/"},"modified":"2015-10-01T01:18:50","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T01:18:50","slug":"abc_aus-_article_on_same-sex_marriage_and_religious_freedom_in_australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51870","title":{"rendered":"An ABC article on Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Freedom in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The synod of the Anglican Church&#8217;s Sydney diocese will next month consider a report from a senior bishop which argues that wedding service providers should have the &#8220;religious freedom&#8221; to refuse to cater for gay couples.<\/p>\n<p>While some believe that such laws would set a dangerous precedent, Australia&#8217;s Human Rights Commissioner Tim Wilson argues the rights of both groups can be protected.<\/p>\n<p>The Anglican Bishop of South Sydney Robert Forsyth heads up the Religious Freedom Reference Group within the church&#8217;s conservative Sydney diocese.<\/p>\n<p>He is personally opposed to gay marriage and wants any new laws to offer an opt-out for those opposed to [same-sex marriage].<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2015-09-30\/anglican-church-fears-gay-marriage-impact-on-christian-wedding-\/6817120\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The synod of the Anglican Church&#8217;s Sydney diocese will next month consider a report from a senior bishop which argues that wedding service providers should have the &#8220;religious freedom&#8221; to refuse to cater for gay couples. While some believe that<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51870\">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":[36,48,39,40,50,576,395,74,175,204,168,114,183,98,184,177,151,108,112,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51870","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-liturgy-music-worship","category-marriage-family","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\/51870","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=51870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}