{"id":64626,"date":"2017-10-21T11:01:55","date_gmt":"2017-10-21T15:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=64626"},"modified":"2017-10-21T13:34:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-21T17:34:00","slug":"telegraph-church-of-england-to-debate-services-for-same-sex-couples-after-bishop-of-hereford-backs-dioceses-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=64626","title":{"rendered":"(Telegraph) Church of England to debate services for same-sex couples after bishop of Hereford backs diocese&#8217;s call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England will debate blessings for same-sex couples after a motion was passed by one diocese, with the support of the local bishop, calling for a formal liturgy.<\/p>\n<p>The Bishop of Hereford, who spoke in favour of the change and voted for the motion, said he thinks clergy should be helped to carry out a more formal service with recently married gay couples.<\/p>\n<p>Hereford&#8217;s diocesan synod has voted to support a motion calling on the House of Bishops to &#8220;commend an Order of Prayer and Dedication after the registration of a civil partnership or a same sex marriage&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2017\/10\/20\/church-england-debate-services-same-sex-couples-bishop-backs\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England will debate blessings for same-sex couples after a motion was passed by one diocese, with the support of the local bishop, calling for a formal liturgy. The Bishop of Hereford, who spoke in favour of the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=64626\">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":[576,175,389,635,168,98,177,108,112,79,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anthropology","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64626","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=64626"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64628,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64626\/revisions\/64628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}