{"id":52987,"date":"2016-01-15T15:24:12","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T15:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_anglican_communion_to_restrict_us_church_over_same-sex_marriage\/"},"modified":"2016-01-15T15:24:12","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T15:24:12","slug":"bbc_anglican_communion_to_restrict_us_church_over_same-sex_marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52987","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Anglican communion to restrict US Church over Same-sex Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anglican leaders have barred a liberal US branch from decision-making for allowing same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Anglicans have been divided on the issue since the US Episcopal Church ordained an openly gay bishop in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Leaders said the church&#8217;s stance was a &#8220;fundamental departure&#8221; from the faith of the majority in what is the world&#8217;s third largest Christian denomination.<\/p>\n<p>But Episcopal leaders said the three-year sanction, which aims to prevent a formal schism, &#8220;will bring real pain&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-35318392\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anglican leaders have barred a liberal US branch from decision-making for allowing same-sex marriage. Anglicans have been divided on the issue since the US Episcopal Church ordained an openly gay bishop in 2003. Leaders said the church&#8217;s stance was a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52987\">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-52987","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\/52987","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=52987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}