{"id":54675,"date":"2016-06-08T20:30:25","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T20:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/leader_of_the_scottish_episcopal_church_says_marriage_vote_risks_church_spl\/"},"modified":"2016-06-08T20:30:25","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T20:30:25","slug":"leader_of_the_scottish_episcopal_church_says_marriage_vote_risks_church_spl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54675","title":{"rendered":"Leader of the Scottish Episcopal Church says marriage vote \u201d\u02dcrisks church split\u2019 w C of E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The leader of the Scottish Episcopal Church has conceded that a vote on same-sex marriage this week risks putting it at odds with the remainder of the Anglican Communion.<\/p>\n<p>The Most Rev David Chillingworth, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, said the potential split was \u201ca very serious issue\u201d\u009d for the Scottish church but added that all sides were committed to maintaining unity.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the church will be asked on Friday to consider a change to canon law, which currently states that marriage must be between a man and a woman, at its General Synod.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\">Read it all<\/a> from the (London) Times (requires subscription).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leader of the Scottish Episcopal Church has conceded that a vote on same-sex marriage this week risks putting it at odds with the remainder of the Anglican Communion. The Most Rev David Chillingworth, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54675\">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":[36,39,576,74,175,389,172,168,133,114,98,108,514,398,112,79,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anglican-provinces","category-anthropology","category-church-of-england-coe","category-ecclesiology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-history","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-religion-culture","category-same-sex-blessings","category-scottish-episcopal-church","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\/54675","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=54675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}