{"id":61301,"date":"2017-07-10T13:05:41","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T17:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=61301"},"modified":"2017-07-10T17:42:34","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T21:42:34","slug":"the-general-synod-of-the-c-of-e-has-passed-a-motion-on-welcoming-transgender-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=61301","title":{"rendered":"The General Synod of the C of E has passed a motion on welcoming transgender people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of Synod, meeting in York, supported a call for the House of Bishops to consider preparing nationally commended liturgical materials to mark a person&#8217;s gender transition.<\/p>\n<p>The motion also recognises the &#8220;need for transgender people to be welcomed and affirmed in their parish church&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It was moved by the Revd Christopher Newlands on behalf of the Blackburn Diocesan Synod.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofengland.org\/media-centre\/news\/2017\/07\/welcoming-transgender-people.aspx\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of Synod, meeting in York, supported a call for the House of Bishops to consider preparing nationally commended liturgical materials to mark a person&#8217;s gender transition. The motion also recognises the &#8220;need for transgender people to be welcomed and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=61301\">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":[175,324,168,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-church-of-england","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-pastoral-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61301","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=61301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61302,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61301\/revisions\/61302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}