{"id":6586,"date":"2008-06-09T22:48:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T22:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/albany_episcopal_diocese_affirms_defense_of_traditional_marriage\/"},"modified":"2008-06-09T22:48:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-09T22:48:00","slug":"albany_episcopal_diocese_affirms_defense_of_traditional_marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6586","title":{"rendered":"Albany Episcopal Diocese affirms defense of traditional marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The conservative-led Episcopal Diocese of Albany staked out a firm defense of traditional marriage on Saturday, a move that comes as gay unions have gained new ground in California and New York.<\/p>\n<p>The hundreds of clergy and lay delegates who converged for their annual convention in this lakeside Adirondack community resoundingly approved a resolution that lays down this rule: Only heterosexual marriages can be celebrated in the diocese.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timesunion.com\/AspStories\/story.asp?storyID=694502&#038;category=FRONTPG&#038;BCCode=HOME&#038;newsdate=6\/8\/2008\">Read it all<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/transfigurations.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/albany-diocese-new-canons-reaffirm.html\">there is more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The conservative-led Episcopal Diocese of Albany staked out a firm defense of traditional marriage on Saturday, a move that comes as gay unions have gained new ground in California and New York. The hundreds of clergy and lay delegates who<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6586\">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":[36,39,66,98,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-marriage-family","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6586","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=6586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}