{"id":58145,"date":"2017-03-19T17:58:22","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T21:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=58145"},"modified":"2017-03-19T17:59:01","modified_gmt":"2017-03-19T21:59:01","slug":"the-jeffrey-john-open-letter-kerfuffle-iii-a-bbc-article-on-the-subject","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=58145","title":{"rendered":"The Jeffrey John Open Letter Kerfuffle (III)&#8211;A BBC Article on the subject"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He wrote to the Bishop of Swansea and Brecon &#8211; the Right Reverend John Davies, who is currently the church&#8217;s senior bishop &#8211; after an electoral college of bishops, clergy and lay people failed to reach a decision about who should replace Dr Barry Morgan as bishop.<br \/>\nIt is understood Mr John received a majority of the votes, but not the two-thirds required by church rules.<br \/>\nHe said homophobic remarks had been made at the electoral college meeting.<br \/>\n&#8220;Much more importantly, the only arguments adduced against my appointment &#8211; in particular by two of the bishops &#8211; were directly related to my homosexuality and\/or civil partnership &#8211; namely that my appointment would bring unwelcome and unsettling publicity to the diocese,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-wales-39321820\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He wrote to the Bishop of Swansea and Brecon &#8211; the Right Reverend John Davies, who is currently the church&#8217;s senior bishop &#8211; after an electoral college of bishops, clergy and lay people failed to reach a decision about who<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=58145\">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":[175,405,168,177,108,112,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-church-of-wales","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58145","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=58145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58147,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58145\/revisions\/58147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}