{"id":6699,"date":"2008-06-16T15:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-16T15:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/new_zealand_priest_in_gay_marriage_row_gives_up_licence\/"},"modified":"2008-06-16T15:42:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-16T15:42:00","slug":"new_zealand_priest_in_gay_marriage_row_gives_up_licence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6699","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand priest in gay marriage row gives up licence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Zealand priest whose gay wedding ceremony has fuelled a row that threatens to split the Anglican Church in Britain has surrendered his own licence to officiate.<\/p>\n<p>The Reverend David Lord \u201d\u201c a former Hamilton emergency room doctor ordained as a deacon in December 2005 \u201d\u201c angered conservative Christians by exchanging rings and vows with his partner in a church ceremony for his civil partnership in London last month.<\/p>\n<p>But Dr Lord, who tied the knot with English clergyman Peter Cowell, a hospital chaplain, &#8220;felt it appropriate to lay down his clergy licence&#8221;, according to a statement jointly released with the Bishop of Waikato, Rt Rev David Moxon.<\/p>\n<p>His decision will bar him from officiating as a priest.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/4585977a10.html\">Read the whole article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Zealand priest whose gay wedding ceremony has fuelled a row that threatens to split the Anglican Church in Britain has surrendered his own licence to officiate. The Reverend David Lord \u201d\u201c a former Hamilton emergency room doctor ordained<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6699\">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":[36,48,39,576,399,74,389,183,98,184,514,112,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anglican-church-in-aotearoa-new-zealand-and-polynesia","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-marriage-family","category-parish-ministry","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\/6699","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=6699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}