{"id":60689,"date":"2017-06-08T16:30:52","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T20:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=60689"},"modified":"2017-06-08T18:38:08","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T22:38:08","slug":"archbp-josiah-idowu-fearons-statement-on-todays-decision-by-the-scottish-episcopal-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=60689","title":{"rendered":"Archbp Josiah Idowu-Fearon&#8217;s statement on today&#8217;s decision by the Scottish Episcopal Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicannews.org\/news\/2017\/06\/scottish-episcopal-church-votes-to-allow-equal-marriage.aspx\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The churches of the Anglican Communion are autonomous and free to make their own decisions on canon law. The Scottish Episcopal Church is one of 38, soon to be 39, provinces covering more than 165 countries around the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s decision by the SEC to approve changes to canon law on marriage is not a surprise, given the outcome of the vote at its Synod a year ago.  There are differing views about same-sex marriage within the Anglican Communion but this puts the Scottish Episcopal Church at odds with the majority stance that marriage is the lifelong union of a man and a woman. This is a departure from the faith and teaching upheld by the overwhelming majority of Anglican provinces on the doctrine of marriage. The Anglican Communion\u2019s position on human sexuality is set out very clearly in Resolution 1.10 agreed at the Lambeth conference of 1998 and will remain so unless it is revoked.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Secretary General, I want the churches within the Anglican Communion to remain committed to walking together in the love of Christ and to working out how we can maintain our unity and uphold the value of every individual in spite of deeply-held differences. It is important to stress the Communion\u2019s strong opposition to the criminalisation of LGBTIQ+ people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe primates of the Communion will be meeting in Canterbury in October. I am sure today\u2019s decision will be among the topics which will be prayerfully discussed. There will be no formal response to the SEC\u2019s vote until the primates have met.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: &#8220;The churches of the Anglican Communion are autonomous and free to make their own decisions on canon law. The Scottish Episcopal Church is one of 38, soon to be 39, provinces covering more than 165 countries around the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=60689\">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":[398,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scottish-episcopal-church","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60689","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=60689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60690,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60689\/revisions\/60690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}