{"id":60649,"date":"2017-06-07T14:26:20","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T18:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=60649"},"modified":"2017-06-07T17:32:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T21:32:46","slug":"church-times-scottish-anglicans-will-decide-this-week-about-same-sex-weddings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=60649","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Scottish Anglicans will decide this week about same-sex weddings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Scottish Episcopal Church reaches a landmark moment this week as its General Synod prepares to vote on whether to allow clergy to conduct marriages for same-sex couples in church.<\/p>\n<p>While welcoming same-sex marriage may be the \u201ceasier\u201d option, the Church will face challenges whatever the result, the Primus, the Most Revd David Chillingworth, has warned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the vote is approved, we face all the challenges of operating the guidelines which we have drawn up to manage the diversity [of views on marriage],\u201d he said on Monday. \u201cIf the vote doesn\u2019t go through, there will be deep distress on the side of those who have been strong advocates of the change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2017\/9-june\/news\/uk\/scottish-anglicans-will-decide-this-week-about-same-sex-weddings\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Scottish Episcopal Church reaches a landmark moment this week as its General Synod prepares to vote on whether to allow clergy to conduct marriages for same-sex couples in church. While welcoming same-sex marriage may be the \u201ceasier\u201d option, the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=60649\">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":[175,168,98,177,398,79,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-pastoral-theology","category-scottish-episcopal-church","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60649","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=60649"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60651,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60649\/revisions\/60651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}