{"id":71374,"date":"2018-05-21T16:20:52","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T20:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=71374"},"modified":"2018-05-21T18:30:40","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T22:30:40","slug":"the-church-of-scotland-has-moved-a-step-closer-to-allowing-some-ministers-and-deacons-to-conduct-same-sex-marriages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=71374","title":{"rendered":"The Church of Scotland has moved a step closer to allowing some Ministers and Deacons to conduct same-sex marriages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The General Assembly voted 345 by 170 to instruct the Legal Questions Committee to prepare legislation with safeguards in accordance with Section 9 (1A) of the Marriage Scotland Act.<\/p>\n<p>But commissioners agreed that the committee should only act if, in its opinion, said safeguards \u201csufficiently protect against the risks they identify\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The committee will report its findings to the General Assembly of 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The motion calling for legislation to be prepared was put forward by Rev Bryan Kerr, minister of Greyfriars Parish Church in Lanark.<\/p>\n<p>It was amended to ensure the committee had the power to recommend withdrawal following a call from Rev Peter White of Sandyford Henderson Memorial Church in Glasgow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchofscotland.org.uk\/news_and_events\/news\/2018\/church_a_step_closer_to_conducting_same-sex_marriages\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The General Assembly voted 345 by 170 to instruct the Legal Questions Committee to prepare legislation with safeguards in accordance with Section 9 (1A) of the Marriage Scotland Act. But commissioners agreed that the committee should only act if, in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=71374\">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":[576,444,175,168,417,108,112,159,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-scotland-england-uk","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-presbyterian","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","category-sexuality-debate-other-denominations-and-faiths","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71374","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=71374"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71376,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71374\/revisions\/71376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}