{"id":71857,"date":"2018-06-04T07:30:47","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T11:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=71857"},"modified":"2018-06-04T08:03:21","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T12:03:21","slug":"bless-same-sex-marriages-pleads-retired-south-african-anglican-archbishop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=71857","title":{"rendered":"(Times Live) Bless same-sex marriages\u201a pleads retired South African Anglican Archbishop Ndungane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Archbishop Emeritus Njongonkulu Ndungane has urged the Anglican Church to show full acceptance of lesbian\u201a gay\u201a bisexual\u201a transgender\u201a questioning\u201a intersexual and asexual people.<\/p>\n<p>He was speaking at St George\u2019s Cathedral\u201a Cape Town\u201a on Saturday at the funeral service of the Reverend Canon Rowan Smith\u201a a former Dean of the Cathedral who identified as gay and campaigned for the rights of the LGBTQIA community.<\/p>\n<p>Archbishop Ndungane asked for the kind of leadership \u201cthat we saw in the dark days of apartheid\u201d and added that the Anglican Church had excluded a \u201chuge part of itself\u201d in respect of people of different sexuality.<\/p>\n<p>The blessing of same sex marriages remained an unresolved issue\u201a and the Church\u2019s failure to deal with this issue meant that its Christian humanity was suffering\u201a the retired archbishop said\u201a according to a statement issued by his office.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/news\/south-africa\/2018-06-04-bless-same-sex-marriages-pleads-retired-anglican-archbishop\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archbishop Emeritus Njongonkulu Ndungane has urged the Anglican Church to show full acceptance of lesbian\u201a gay\u201a bisexual\u201a transgender\u201a questioning\u201a intersexual and asexual people. He was speaking at St George\u2019s Cathedral\u201a Cape Town\u201a on Saturday at the funeral service of the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=71857\">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":[576,175,168,98,177,514,112,79,330,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-pastoral-theology","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-south-africa","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71857","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=71857"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71859,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71857\/revisions\/71859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}