{"id":57182,"date":"2017-01-26T01:20:06","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T01:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/tennessean_task_force_to_study_episcopal_diocese_of_tennessees_same-sex_mar\/"},"modified":"2017-01-26T01:20:06","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T01:20:06","slug":"tennessean_task_force_to_study_episcopal_diocese_of_tennessees_same-sex_mar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57182","title":{"rendered":"(Tennessean) Task force to study Episcopal diocese of Tennessee&#39;s same-sex marriage ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of appealing to the national Episcopal church or the bishop to lift his own ban on priests officiating same-sex marriages, lay and clergy members of the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee sent the matter to a task force for further study.<\/p>\n<p>More than two-thirds of the delegates at the diocese&#8217;s Annual Convention on Saturday supported a resolution that directs the diocese&#8217;s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender task force to assess how Bishop John Bauerschmidt&#8217;s marriage restrictions affect congregations and clergy in Middle Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/news\/religion\/2017\/01\/21\/task-force-study-episcopal-dioceses-same-sex-marriage-ban\/96734966\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>I will take comments on this submitted by email only to KSHarmon[at]mindspring[dot]com<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of appealing to the national Episcopal church or the bishop to lift his own ban on priests officiating same-sex marriages, lay and clergy members of the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee sent the matter to a task force for further<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57182\">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":[36,39,576,175,66,168,98,177,112,372,379,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anthropology","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-pastoral-theology","category-sexuality","category-tec-bishops","category-tec-diocesan-conventionsdiocesan-councils","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57182","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=57182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}