{"id":60664,"date":"2017-06-08T07:15:15","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T11:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=60664"},"modified":"2017-06-08T06:11:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T10:11:27","slug":"christian-today-scottish-episcopal-church-faces-landmark-vote-on-same-sex-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=60664","title":{"rendered":"(Christian Today) Scottish Episcopal Church faces landmark vote on same-sex marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;[The] Rev David McArthy, a traditionalist priest in the SEC and part of the conservative Scottish Anglican Network, told Christian Today there was an &#8216;immense sadness from many people in Scotland&#8217; about the upcoming decision.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It is not simply a group of evangelical churches who have concerns about this but a fairly wide group,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I pray that the leadership realise what they are about to do will have serious consequences for the Church.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>But supporters of gay marriage hope to see same-sex couples married in church by the end of year and see it as Scotland leading the way in the Church&#8217;s debate.<\/p>\n<p>When threatened with &#8216;consequences&#8217; by the Archbishop of Canterbury if they went ahead, Chillingworth responded by saying we &#8216;will not change what we do&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8216;Maybe it is a price worth paying for the ultimate healing of the [Anglican] Communion.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/article\/scottish.episcopal.church.faces.landmark.vote.on.gay.marriage\/109881.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;[The] Rev David McArthy, a traditionalist priest in the SEC and part of the conservative Scottish Anglican Network, told Christian Today there was an &#8216;immense sadness from many people in Scotland&#8217; about the upcoming decision. &#8216;It is not simply a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=60664\">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":[576,175,168,98,177,514,398,79,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-pastoral-theology","category-same-sex-blessings","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\/60664","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=60664"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60666,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60664\/revisions\/60666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}