{"id":6937,"date":"2008-06-30T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_battling_liberal_church_policies\/"},"modified":"2008-06-30T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-30T20:00:00","slug":"bbc_battling_liberal_church_policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6937","title":{"rendered":"BBC:  Battling &#39;liberal&#39; Church policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Traditionalists]&#8230;have set up what amounts to a church within a church in order to organise for a long struggle against the ordination of gay clergy, the blessing of gay relationships, and what they claim is a drift towards accepting other religions as offering &#8220;equal access to God&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Rev Rod Thomas, of the conservative Church of England group Reform, helped to formulate the organisation&#8217;s strategy.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed that traditionalists had been forced to create a new alliance to prevent the Bible being rewritten by liberal Anglicans to suit their current lifestyles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Anglican Church is being destroyed by false teaching of the Bible on issues such as homosexuality&#8221;, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are gong to stand against this trend, and spread the true message of the Bible with confidence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/7481349.stm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Traditionalists]&#8230;have set up what amounts to a church within a church in order to organise for a long struggle against the ordination of gay clergy, the blessing of gay relationships, and what they claim is a drift towards accepting other<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6937\">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":[36,510,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-gafcon-i-2008","category-global-south-churches-primates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6937","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=6937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}