{"id":7416,"date":"2008-07-23T15:44:09","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T15:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/charles_haynes_marriage_entanglements\/"},"modified":"2008-07-23T15:44:09","modified_gmt":"2008-07-23T15:44:09","slug":"charles_haynes_marriage_entanglements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=7416","title":{"rendered":"Charles Haynes: Marriage entanglements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suddenly this summer, the reality of same-sex couples lining up to get married in California has led some religious leaders to rethink their government role.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter last month, Bishop Marc Handley Andrus of the Episcopal Diocese of California directed his clergy to \u201cencourage all couples, regardless of orientation, to follow the pattern of first being married in a secular service and then being blessed in the Episcopal Church.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The bishop\u2019s missive illustrates what a tangled web we have woven when clergy intone \u201cby the power invested in me by the state.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Because the Episcopal Church doesn\u2019t sanction same-sex marriage \u201d\u201d but gives the option of blessing the union \u201d\u201d the bishop appears to be seeking a way to bless all couples while distancing the church from legal arrangements sanctioned by the state.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rrstar.com\/opinions\/columnists\/x590747321\/Marriage-entanglements\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suddenly this summer, the reality of same-sex couples lining up to get married in California has led some religious leaders to rethink their government role. In a letter last month, Bishop Marc Handley Andrus of the Episcopal Diocese of California<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=7416\">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":[36,39,576,66,114,98,108,514,112,79,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-religion-culture","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-tec-bishops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7416","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=7416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}