{"id":55404,"date":"2016-08-23T20:35:29","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T20:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/guardian_activist_anglican_clergy_to_defy_churchs_official_stance_on_same-s\/"},"modified":"2016-08-23T20:35:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T20:35:29","slug":"guardian_activist_anglican_clergy_to_defy_churchs_official_stance_on_same-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55404","title":{"rendered":"(Guardian) Activist Anglican clergy to defy church&#39;s official stance on same-sex marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of gay Church of England clergy are set to reveal that they have married their partners, defying the official line taken by church leaders on same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n<p>A dozen gay ministers are to sign an open letter that also urges the church to allow clergy to carry out blessings for parishioners entering into same-sex marriages.<\/p>\n<p>Half the signatories have already declared themselves to be in a gay marriage, including Andrew Foreshew-Cain, who was one of the first priests to openly defy the ruling.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2016\/aug\/21\/gay-anglican-clergy-to-defy-churchs-official-stance-on-same-sex-marriage\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of gay Church of England clergy are set to reveal that they have married their partners, defying the official line taken by church leaders on same-sex marriage. A dozen gay ministers are to sign an open letter that<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55404\">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":[36,48,39,50,576,74,175,389,199,168,98,435,184,177,108,112,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55404","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-provinces","category-anthropology","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55404","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=55404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}