{"id":52986,"date":"2016-01-15T15:10:12","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T15:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_telegraph_article_on_the_2016_primates_gathering_statementt\/"},"modified":"2016-01-15T15:10:12","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T15:10:12","slug":"a_telegraph_article_on_the_2016_primates_gathering_statementt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52986","title":{"rendered":"A Telegraph Article on the 2016 Primates Gathering Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The worldwide Anglican church has taken a step back from the brink of break-up &#8211; but voted to partially exclude its liberal American branch because of its stance on homosexuality.<\/p>\n<p>Archbishops and bishops from around the world, meeting behind closed doors in the crypt of Canterbury Cathedral, voted explicitly to condemn same-sex marriage as a \u201cfundamental departure\u201d\u009d from traditional Anglican teaching.<\/p>\n<p> The primates from almost 40 countries also decided to bar the US branch of Anglicanism, The Episcopal Church (Tec) &#8211; which officially recognises gay marriage \u201d\u201c from key bodies for the next three years.<\/p>\n<p>But, fundamentally, it remains part of the Global Anglican Communion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/religion\/12100648\/Anglicans-step-back-from-brink-of-schism-over-homosexuality.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The worldwide Anglican church has taken a step back from the brink of break-up &#8211; but voted to partially exclude its liberal American branch because of its stance on homosexuality. Archbishops and bishops from around the world, meeting behind closed<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52986\">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":[36,65,367,382,81,67,518],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-primary-source","category-statements-letters-primates","category-justin-welby","category-anglican-primates","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-primates-gathering-in-canterbury-january-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52986","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=52986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}