{"id":59529,"date":"2017-05-03T17:11:03","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T21:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59529"},"modified":"2017-05-03T17:35:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T21:35:49","slug":"church-of-ireland-to-debate-motion-on-same-sex-relationships-at-its-general-synod-which-begins-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59529","title":{"rendered":"Church of Ireland to debate Motion on Same-sex Relationships at its General Synod which begins Tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ireland.anglican.org\/cmsfiles\/pdf\/Synod\/2017\/Motions2017.pdf\">here<\/a> (Motion 12 on page 5):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>PRIVATE MEMBER\u2019S MOTION<br \/>\nProposer: Dr Leo Kilroy<br \/>\nSeconder:<br \/>\nRev Brian O\u2019Rourke<br \/>\nNotwithstanding the diversity of conviction regarding human sexuality, and in order to maintain the unity of the Church of Ireland, the General Synod <\/p>\n<p>A. Acknowledges the injury felt by members of the Church who enter into loving, committed and legally-recognised, same-sex relationships, due to the absence of provision for them to mark that key moment in their lives publicly and prayerfully in Church.<br \/>\nand <\/p>\n<p>B. Respectfully requests the House of Bishops to investigate a means to develop sensitive, local pastoral arrangements for public prayer and thanksgiving with same-sex couples at these key moments in their lives, and to present their ideas to General Synod 2018, with a view to making proposals at General Synod 2019.  <\/p>\n<p>The development of any such pastoral arrangements should not infringe Canon 31 and the facilitation of such arrangements would not impair the communion between an individual<br \/>\nbishop or diocese with any other bishop or diocese of the Church of Ireland.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here (Motion 12 on page 5): PRIVATE MEMBER\u2019S MOTION Proposer: Dr Leo Kilroy Seconder: Rev Brian O\u2019Rourke Notwithstanding the diversity of conviction regarding human sexuality, and in order to maintain the unity of the Church of Ireland, the General<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59529\">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":[576,443,409,114,98,108,514,112,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-ireland-england-uk","category-church-of-ireland","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-religion-culture","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59529","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=59529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59530,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59529\/revisions\/59530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}