{"id":54327,"date":"2016-05-10T16:00:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T16:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/new_zealands_anglican_church_considers_same-sex_blessings\/"},"modified":"2016-05-10T16:00:45","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T16:00:45","slug":"new_zealands_anglican_church_considers_same-sex_blessings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54327","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand&#39;s Anglican Church considers same-sex blessings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand&#8217;s Anglican Church is sticking to its guns on ruling out same-sex marriage, but may be open to the idea of blessing same-sex couples that have been married.<\/p>\n<p>The blessing, which would take place in a church, would be spoken in the past tense as the union had already happened and there would be no exchange of rings.<\/p>\n<p>The church is holding its two-yearly meeting, or general synod, in Napier this week, with one of the major items on the agenda a report entitled A Way Forward, which raised the option of blessings for same-sex couples.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/national\/79709848\/new-zealands-anglican-church-considers-samesex-blessings\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand&#8217;s Anglican Church is sticking to its guns on ruling out same-sex marriage, but may be open to the idea of blessing same-sex couples that have been married. The blessing, which would take place in a church, would be<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54327\">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":[36,39,50,576,399,74,175,204,168,98,177,108,514,112,79,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anglican-church-in-aotearoa-new-zealand-and-polynesia","category-anglican-provinces","category-anthropology","category-australia-nz","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54327","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=54327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}