{"id":57403,"date":"2017-02-13T16:30:50","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T16:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_times_critics_of_bishops_sexuality_report_plan_a_synod_protest_vote\/"},"modified":"2017-02-13T16:30:50","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T16:30:50","slug":"church_times_critics_of_bishops_sexuality_report_plan_a_synod_protest_vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57403","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Critics of Bishops\u2019 sexuality report plan a Synod protest vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Bishops\u2019 report on marriage and same-sex relationships&#8230;is a \u201cmorally reprehensible document that needs to be rejected by the Synod\u201d\u009d, the Prolocutor of the Lower House of the Convocation of Canterbury, Canon Simon Butler, said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Describing it as a \u201cbetrayal of trust\u201d\u009d that left \u201cweapons on the table\u201d\u009d, he expected a \u201cvery close vote\u201d\u009d after the take-note debate scheduled to take place on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it is defeated, that is a clear signal to the House of Bishops that Synod is unwilling to progress in the direction they are taking,\u201d\u009d he said. \u201cIf it is a narrow vote, the Bishops would be very unwise to continue down this course, because the whole of the Church\u2019s wider agenda will be subsumed into a conflict that will last for the next period of the life of the Church. That would be a disaster.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2017\/10-february\/news\/uk\/critics-of-bishops-sex-report-plan-a-synod-protest-vote\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Bishops\u2019 report on marriage and same-sex relationships&#8230;is a \u201cmorally reprehensible document that needs to be rejected by the Synod\u201d\u009d, the Prolocutor of the Lower House of the Convocation of Canterbury, Canon Simon Butler, said on Wednesday. Describing<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57403\">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":[36,39,40,50,74,175,389,635,199,168,114,98,177,151,129,108,79,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-anthropology","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-pastoral-theology","category-politics-in-general","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57403","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=57403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}