{"id":53309,"date":"2016-02-11T21:26:27","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T21:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/an_episcopal_priest_in_chehalis_washington_responds_to_the_primates_gatheri\/"},"modified":"2016-02-11T21:26:27","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T21:26:27","slug":"an_episcopal_priest_in_chehalis_washington_responds_to_the_primates_gatheri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53309","title":{"rendered":"An Episcopal Priest in Chehalis, Washington responds to the Primates Gathering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, the archbishops of the Anglican Communion voted to temporarily kick the American branch of the Communion, the Episcopal Church, out of its international association to a degree for its acceptance of gays and lesbians.<br \/>\nTwo-thirds of the 37 leaders of the Communion voted for the censorship, suspending the Episcopal Church from voting and decision-making for the next three years.<br \/>\nWhile the decision is said to have derived from the Episcopal Church\u2019s decision in July of last year to allow its priests to perform same-sex marriages, Father Joe Mikel, priest at St. Timothy Episcopal Church in Chehalis, agrees with the Episcopal Church\u2019s acceptance.<br \/>\n\u201cIf you\u2019re gay, a lesbian, transgender human being, do I throw you on the ash heap of life?\u201d\u009d Mikel asked. \u201cAre they human beings? Do they need love? Do they long for inclusion and forgiveness \u201d\u00a6 just like me?\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chronline.com\/news\/episcopal-priest-in-chehalis-speaks-on-divide-over-acceptance-of\/article_5085c610-d0eb-11e5-b8ab-e707a2e3b9b2.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, the archbishops of the Anglican Communion voted to temporarily kick the American branch of the Communion, the Episcopal Church, out of its international association to a degree for its acceptance of gays and lesbians. Two-thirds of the 37<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53309\">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":[36,48,39,40,65,367,576,382,81,175,67,66,168,98,435,184,177,151,518,108,112,380,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-anglican-primary-source","category-statements-letters-primates","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-justin-welby","category-anglican-primates","category-anthropology","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-politics-in-general","category-primates-gathering-in-canterbury-january-2016","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","category-tec-parishes","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53309","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=53309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}