{"id":52989,"date":"2016-01-15T15:45:56","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T15:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_guardian_article_on_the_2016_primates_gathering_statement\/"},"modified":"2016-01-15T15:45:56","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T15:45:56","slug":"a_guardian_article_on_the_2016_primates_gathering_statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52989","title":{"rendered":"A Guardian Article on the 2016 Primates Gathering Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A permanent split in the global Anglican communion over gay rights has been averted after archbishops overwhelmingly agreed to impose sanctions against the liberal US church and issue a statement in support of the \u201ctraditional doctrine\u201d\u009d that marriage should be between a man and a woman.<\/p>\n<p>The punitive measures and conservative statement came after four days of \u201cpainful\u201d\u009d talks in Canterbury aimed at moving the world\u2019s 85 million-strong Anglican fellowship beyond deep divisions over homosexuality between liberals and conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>An agreement, published on Thursday evening, said the US Episcopal church\u2019s acceptance of same-sex marriage represented \u201ca fundamental departure from the faith and teaching held by the majority of our provinces on the doctrine of marriage\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/jan\/14\/anglican-church-sanctions-against-liberal-us-church-same-sex-marriage?CMP=share_btn_tw\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A permanent split in the global Anglican communion over gay rights has been averted after archbishops overwhelmingly agreed to impose sanctions against the liberal US church and issue a statement in support of the \u201ctraditional doctrine\u201d\u009d that marriage should be<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52989\">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-52989","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\/52989","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=52989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}