{"id":54709,"date":"2016-06-11T01:10:23","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T01:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/split_looms_over_same-sex_marriage_as_scottish_anglicans_offered_alternativ\/"},"modified":"2016-06-11T01:10:23","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T01:10:23","slug":"split_looms_over_same-sex_marriage_as_scottish_anglicans_offered_alternativ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54709","title":{"rendered":"Split looms over Same-sex marriage as Scottish Anglicans offered &#39;alternative oversight&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a letter released after the vote, the Gafcon UK Panel of Bishops said they offered &#8220;to provide alternative episcopal oversight, and thereby your recognition as faithful Anglicans by the worldwide Gafcon movement, which represents the majority of Anglicans worldwide&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The letter was signed by four bishops on behalf of Gafcon UK&#8217;s panel and four other Anglican clergymen.<\/p>\n<p>Written before the vote, it was released by the traditionalist Scottish Anglican Network in the immediate aftermath of the decision. It said the SEC was &#8220;dividing the church&#8221; over the issue of gay marriage and promised to &#8220;stand united with faithful Anglicans in Scotland seeking to uphold the plain doctrinal and moral teaching of the Holy Scriptures&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/article\/split.looms.over.gay.marriage.as.scottish.anglicans.offered.alternative.oversight\/88077.htm\">Read it all<\/a> from Christian Today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a letter released after the vote, the Gafcon UK Panel of Bishops said they offered &#8220;to provide alternative episcopal oversight, and thereby your recognition as faithful Anglicans by the worldwide Gafcon movement, which represents the majority of Anglicans worldwide&#8221;.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54709\">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":[36,39,576,74,175,172,168,98,177,108,514,398,112,79,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anglican-provinces","category-anthropology","category-ecclesiology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-pastoral-theology","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\/54709","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=54709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}