{"id":57402,"date":"2017-02-13T16:22:48","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T16:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/observer-church_faces_new_split_over_attitude_to_same-sex_relationships\/"},"modified":"2017-02-13T16:22:48","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T16:22:48","slug":"observer-church_faces_new_split_over_attitude_to_same-sex_relationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57402","title":{"rendered":"(Observer) Church of Eng faces new split over attitude to same-sex relationships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">THE OBSERVER FRONT PAGE: &#39;Church faces new split over attitude to gay relationships&#39; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/skypapers?src=hash\">#skypapers<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uoot15hj3j\">pic.twitter.com\/uoot15hj3j<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sky News (@SkyNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkyNews\/status\/830530359158792192\">February 11, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Church of England is facing a fresh crisis over its stance on gay relationships following unprecedented criticism by a group of leading retired bishops over its failure to provide leadership on the issue, and its marginalisation of LGBT members.<\/p>\n<p>The highly unconventional intervention comes before this week\u2019s synod, which will be dominated by rancorous divisions over sexuality. Officials hope the 500-plus members of the church\u2019s general assembly will approve a recent report from bishops which upholds the traditional teaching that marriage is a lifelong union between one man and one woman.<\/p>\n<p>But a rebellion is being orchestrated by supporters of LGBT rights who are dismayed at the bishops\u2019 restatement of doctrine. The church insists that gay clergy must be celibate, and clergy are forbidden from conducting same-sex marriage services. An open letter from 14 retired bishops, led by Peter Selby, the former bishop of Worcester, and including Richard Harries, former bishop of Oxford, urges their successors to think again. They say serving bishops have sought to manage a conflict \u201crather than perhaps enabling or leading\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/feb\/11\/church-of-england-faces-lgbt-rights-rebellion\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE OBSERVER FRONT PAGE: &#39;Church faces new split over attitude to gay relationships&#39; #skypapers pic.twitter.com\/uoot15hj3j &mdash; Sky News (@SkyNews) February 11, 2017 The Church of England is facing a fresh crisis over its stance on gay relationships following unprecedented criticism<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57402\">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":[36,39,40,50,576,74,175,389,635,172,199,168,114,98,151,129,108,112,79,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anglican-provinces","category-anthropology","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-ecclesiology","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-politics-in-general","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","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\/57402","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=57402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}