{"id":70718,"date":"2018-04-30T16:22:52","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T20:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=70718"},"modified":"2018-04-30T18:06:16","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T22:06:16","slug":"christian-today-bishop-alan-wilson-joins-300-anglicans-backing-us-churchs-plans-for-gender-neutral-wedding-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=70718","title":{"rendered":"(Christian Today) Bishop Alan Wilson joins 300 Anglicans backing US Church\u2019s plans for gender-neutral wedding service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A prominent bishop and 300 other Anglicans have backed the US Episcopal Church\u2019s stance on same-sex marriage, saying it shows the Church is \u2018not as homophobic as it can sometimes appear\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>They have signed an \u2018alternative\u2019 letter to one sent by the Church of England\u2019s general secretary, William Nye, that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/article\/pro-lgbt-anglicans-hit-back-at-letter-threatening-split-over-us-gay-friendly-prayer-book\/128704.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">warned American Anglicans could face \u2018stringent consequences\u2019<\/a>\u00a0if it went ahead with plans for a gender neutral wedding service. He added such a move would increase pressure for the CofE to \u2018disassociate\u2019 itself from its US counterpart.<\/p>\n<p>The Episcopal Church (TEC) in America permits same-sex marriage, unlike the Church of England and most other provinces in the 80 million-strong Anglican Communion around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Nye\u2019s original letter has sparked a fierce backlash from pro-LGBT Anglicans in the UK and more than 300 have signed a different note thanking TEC for \u2018leading the way on this important issue\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/uk\/bishop-joins-300-anglicans-backing-us-churchs-plans-for-gender-neutral-wedding-service\/128837.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A prominent bishop and 300 other Anglicans have backed the US Episcopal Church\u2019s stance on same-sex marriage, saying it shows the Church is \u2018not as homophobic as it can sometimes appear\u2019. They have signed an \u2018alternative\u2019 letter to one sent<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=70718\">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":[576,175,389,635,66,168,183,98,184,177,108,112,79,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anthropology","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-marriage-family","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70718","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=70718"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70722,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70718\/revisions\/70722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}