{"id":54472,"date":"2016-05-23T21:36:58","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T21:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/martin_davie_responds_to_oliver_odonovans_recent_piece_on_the_scottish_epis\/"},"modified":"2016-05-23T21:36:58","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T21:36:58","slug":"martin_davie_responds_to_oliver_odonovans_recent_piece_on_the_scottish_epis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54472","title":{"rendered":"Martin Davie responds to Oliver O&#39;Donovan&#39;s recent piece on the Scottish Episcopal Marriage debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>(For the original piece to which this is responding please see <a href=\"http:\/\/new.kendallharmon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/index.php\/t19\/article\/64864\">here<\/a>&#8211;KSH)<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>There are likely to be many Anglicans, not least in the Church of England, who will welcome the idea that there might be a viable \u201d\u02dcthird way\u2019 between supporting same-sex marriages and simply maintaining the Church\u2019s traditional position. However, I would want to argue that there is in fact no viable \u201d\u02dcthird way\u2019 on this issue. This is for three reasons.<\/p>\n<p>First, the position of those advocating for LGBT equality has moved on since the days when a blessing of same-sex partnerships might have been seen as acceptable.<\/p>\n<p>Now that same-sex \u201d\u02dcmarriage\u2019 is legal in an increasing number of jurisdictions around the world, including England, Scotland and Wales, LGBT advocates will not be content with anything less than the Church coming into line with society and practicing \u201d\u02dcequal marriage\u2019 as well. For example, those Gay and Lesbian Christians such as Canon Jeremy Pemberton who are already \u201d\u02dcmarried\u2019 are not going to be content with anything less than the Church\u2019s full recognition of their marital status.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, even the recognition of same-sex \u201d\u02dcmarriages\u2019 is now a relatively conservative position. The new focus of LGBT activism is now the call to move beyond the \u201d\u02dcheteronormative gender binary\u2019 (the idea that humanity is divided into men and women) and recognise a whole multiplicity of different gender identities (Facebook UK now gives you seventy one gender options to choose from) and a whole range of forms of personal relationship to suit these different identities&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mbarrattdavie.wordpress.com\/2016\/05\/23\/a-response-to-oliver-odonovan-the-wreck-of-catholic-identity-marriage-canon-revision-in-the-scottish-episcopal-church\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(For the original piece to which this is responding please see here&#8211;KSH). There are likely to be many Anglicans, not least in the Church of England, who will welcome the idea that there might be a viable \u201d\u02dcthird way\u2019 between<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54472\">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":[36,39,40,50,576,74,175,389,199,168,98,177,151,129,108,326,398,112,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anglican-provinces","category-anthropology","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-pastoral-theology","category-politics-in-general","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-scotland","category-scottish-episcopal-church","category-sexuality","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54472","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=54472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}