{"id":88842,"date":"2020-01-24T16:18:55","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T21:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=88842"},"modified":"2020-01-24T18:45:26","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T23:45:26","slug":"a-telegraph-article-on-the-c-of-e-house-of-bps-guidance-released-yesterday-civil-partnerships-should-be-no-more-than-sexually-abstinent-friendships-church-of-england-bishops-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=88842","title":{"rendered":"A Telegraph Article on the C of E House of Bps Guidance Released Yesterday&#8211;Civil partnerships should be no more than &#8216;sexually abstinent friendships&#8217;, Church of England Bishops rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Civil partnerships should be no more than \u201csexually abstinent friendships\u201d, the Church of England has stated.<\/p>\n<p>Following a landmark legal battle, which resulted in the recent introduction of mixed-sex civil partnerships, Bishops have now issued pastoral guidance to clergy on how to deal with the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Religious leaders have concluded that sex belongs only within heterosexual marriage, and that Christians who are in either gay or straight civil partnerships should remain sexually abstinent.<\/p>\n<p>The statement from the House of Bishops said that sex outside of marriage falls \u201cshort of God\u2019s purposes for human beings\u201d and concludes that those in civil partnerships \u2013 whether same-sex or opposite-sex \u2013 can be ordained, as long as they commit to celibacy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2020\/01\/23\/civil-partnerships-should-no-sexually-abstinent-friendships\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;Christians believe sex is for married heterosexual couples only&#8221; &#8211; funny how this statement, which would not be news even 25 years ago, now causes shock <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZeOUiuB8on\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZeOUiuB8on<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TelegraphNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@telegraphnews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jack Valero \u0646 (@jackvalero) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jackvalero\/status\/1220796417217847298?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 24, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civil partnerships should be no more than \u201csexually abstinent friendships\u201d, the Church of England has stated. Following a landmark legal battle, which resulted in the recent introduction of mixed-sex civil partnerships, Bishops have now issued pastoral guidance to clergy on<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=88842\">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":[389,635,168,98,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-sexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88842","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=88842"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88845,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88842\/revisions\/88845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}