{"id":55026,"date":"2016-07-08T00:14:13","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T00:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/times-colonist_victoria_anglican_leaders_argue_for_same-sex_marriage\/"},"modified":"2016-07-08T00:14:13","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T00:14:13","slug":"times-colonist_victoria_anglican_leaders_argue_for_same-sex_marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55026","title":{"rendered":"(Times-Colonist) Victoria Anglican leaders argue for same-sex marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two Victoria leaders in the Anglican church will argue in favour of allowing same-sex marriage at a national council meeting in Ontario this week \u201d\u201d which is coincidentally Pride week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been talking about this since the \u201960s. \u201d\u00a6 I look at it as a justice issue,\u201d\u009d said Logan McMenamie, bishop of Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands and Kingcome Inlet.<\/p>\n<p>The Anglican Church of Canada will discuss and vote on changing the canon definition of marriage from being between a man and a woman to between two persons. Currently, the Anglican church performs blessings for same-sex civil unions.<\/p>\n<p>The vote takes place at the General Synod, a national gathering, held every three years, of the houses that make up the Anglican church: The laity, clergy and bishops. In March, the house of bishops said it was not likely to pass the vote.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timescolonist.com\/news\/local\/victoria-anglican-leaders-argue-for-same-sex-marriage-1.2296338\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Victoria leaders in the Anglican church will argue in favour of allowing same-sex marriage at a national council meeting in Ontario this week \u201d\u201d which is coincidentally Pride week. \u201cWe\u2019ve been talking about this since the \u201960s. \u201d\u00a6 I<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55026\">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":[36,48,39,50,576,388,74,175,207,168,114,98,435,184,177,108,112,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anglican-church-of-canada","category-anglican-provinces","category-anthropology","category-canada","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55026","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=55026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}