{"id":55589,"date":"2016-09-09T15:30:30","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T15:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_times_bishop_of_grantham_gay_and_in_a_relationship_hopes_to_be_stand\/"},"modified":"2016-09-09T15:30:30","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T15:30:30","slug":"church_times_bishop_of_grantham_gay_and_in_a_relationship_hopes_to_be_stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55589","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Bishop of Grantham, &#39;gay and in a relationship,&#39; hopes to be \u201d\u02dcstandard-bearer\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Asked about&#8230;[the GAFCON] statement, Dr Chamberlain said: \u201cI read it and listened to the news. I can well understand what is being said by my brothers and sisters in Christ.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Susie Leafe, who chairs Reform, told the BBC that she sympathised with Dr Chamberlain for having been \u201chounded by the secular press and forced into making a statement\u201d\u009d: \u201cAll human beings have a range of complex desires. Who he is attracted to should not make any difference to his ability to do the job of a bishop,\u201d\u009d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The Bishop of Grimsby, Dr David Court, who trained at Oak Hill, and described himself as coming from a \u201cmore traditional part of the Church . . . who may struggle with some of the issues here\u201d\u009d, joined the BBC Lincolnshire interview on Sunday to show support for Dr Chamblerlain. \u201cI am here to give credence to the fact that we want to work together, and that it is possible.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2016\/9-september\/news\/uk\/gay-suffragan-says-he-hopes-to-be-standard-bearer\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asked about&#8230;[the GAFCON] statement, Dr Chamberlain said: \u201cI read it and listened to the news. I can well understand what is being said by my brothers and sisters in Christ.\u201d\u009d Susie Leafe, who chairs Reform, told the BBC that she<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55589\">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":[36,39,50,576,74,175,389,635,199,168,98,177,108,514,112,79,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55589","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-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-same-sex-blessings","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\/55589","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=55589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}