{"id":88972,"date":"2020-01-28T16:05:24","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T21:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=88972"},"modified":"2020-01-28T19:14:20","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T00:14:20","slug":"bbc-welsh-bishop-in-a-seme-sex-partnership-will-not-push-for-same-sex-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=88972","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Welsh bishop in a same-sex partnership will not push for same-sex marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wales&#8217; first bishop in a same-sex civil partnership has said she will not campaign for same-sex marriage in the Church in Wales.<\/p>\n<p>Cherry Vann, who was consecrated as the Bishop of Monmouth on Sunday, said the church still had &#8220;a lot of thinking to do&#8221; about marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Vann, 60, said she hoped LGBT people would be able to see her appointment as a sign of hope.<\/p>\n<p>She will be enthroned at Newport Cathedral on 1 February.<\/p>\n<p>The Church in Wales does not conduct same sex marriages, but same-sex couples are permitted to be married in places of worship in Wales.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-wales-51274677\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wales&#8217; first bishop in a same-sex civil partnership has said she will not campaign for same-sex marriage in the Church in Wales. Cherry Vann, who was consecrated as the Bishop of Monmouth on Sunday, said the church still had &#8220;a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=88972\">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":[405],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-wales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88972","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=88972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88979,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88972\/revisions\/88979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}