{"id":6691,"date":"2008-06-16T04:17:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-16T04:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/aplondon_bishop_to_investigate_gay_church_ceremony\/"},"modified":"2008-06-16T04:17:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-16T04:17:00","slug":"aplondon_bishop_to_investigate_gay_church_ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6691","title":{"rendered":"AP: London bishop to investigate gay church ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bishop of London said Sunday he would order an investigation into whether two gay priests exchanged rings and vows in a church ceremony, violating Anglican guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>The priests walked down the aisle in a May 31 service at one of London&#8217;s oldest churches marked by a fanfare of trumpets and capped by a shower of confetti, Britain&#8217;s Sunday Telegraph reported.<\/p>\n<p>The bishop, the Right Rev. Richard Chartres, said such services are not authorized in the Church of England. He said he would ask the archdeacon of London to investigate.<\/p>\n<p>A call placed with the archdeacon was not immediately returned.<\/p>\n<p>Britain officially recognizes civil partnerships but the Church of England&#8217;s guidelines say clergy should not bless such unions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/bin\/printfriendly.php?id=13719893\" title=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/bin\/printfriendly.php?id=13719893\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bishop of London said Sunday he would order an investigation into whether two gay priests exchanged rings and vows in a church ceremony, violating Anglican guidelines. The priests walked down the aisle in a May 31 service at one<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6691\">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":[36,39,576,74,389,635,98,514,112,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-marriage-family","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6691","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=6691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}