{"id":60683,"date":"2017-06-08T16:00:33","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T20:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=60683"},"modified":"2017-06-08T18:43:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T22:43:34","slug":"scottish-episcopal-church-votes-to-allow-for-same-sex-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=60683","title":{"rendered":"(Church PR) Scottish Episcopal Church votes to allow for same-sex Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The General Synod of the Scottish Episcopal Church today voted in favour of altering the church\u2019s Canon on Marriage to remove the definition that marriage is between a man and a woman and add a new section that acknowledges that there are different understandings of marriage which now allows clergy to solemnise marriage between same sex couples as well as couples of the opposite sex. The revised canon also stipulates that no member of clergy will be required to solemnise a marriage against their conscience.<\/p>\n<p>The voting was in three \u2018houses\u2019 of General Synod, namely Bishops, Clergy, Laity and required a two thirds majority to pass. The voting results are as below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotland.anglican.org\/church-votes-allow-equal-marriage\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The General Synod of the Scottish Episcopal Church today voted in favour of altering the church\u2019s Canon on Marriage to remove the definition that marriage is between a man and a woman and add a new section that acknowledges that<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=60683\">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":[514,398,79,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-same-sex-blessings","category-scottish-episcopal-church","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60683","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=60683"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60694,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60683\/revisions\/60694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}