{"id":54706,"date":"2016-06-10T18:16:28","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T18:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_scottish_episcopal_church_takes_step_toward_same-sex_marriage_approval\/"},"modified":"2016-06-10T18:16:28","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T18:16:28","slug":"bbc_scottish_episcopal_church_takes_step_toward_same-sex_marriage_approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54706","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Scottish Episcopal Church takes step toward same-sex marriage approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Scottish Episcopal Church&#8217;s General Synod has made the first steps of any Anglican Church in the UK towards allowing gay marriage in church.<br \/>\nThe synod voted that a change to its Canon law governing marriage should be sent for discussion to the church&#8217;s seven dioceses.<br \/>\nA further vote will happen at next year&#8217;s synod.<br \/>\nThe proposal would remove the doctrinal clause which states that marriage is between a man and a woman.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-scotland-36498967\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Scottish Episcopal Church&#8217;s General Synod has made the first steps of any Anglican Church in the UK towards allowing gay marriage in church. The synod voted that a change to its Canon law governing marriage should be sent for<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54706\">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":[36,39,50,576,74,175,172,199,168,98,107,326,398,112,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anglican-provinces","category-anthropology","category-ecclesiology","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-ruraltown-life","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\/54706","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=54706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}