{"id":89321,"date":"2020-02-07T16:05:11","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T21:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=89321"},"modified":"2020-02-07T17:08:15","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T22:08:15","slug":"christian-today-ben-bradshaw-mp-warns-church-of-england-its-established-status-is-at-threat-over-civil-partnerships-stance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=89321","title":{"rendered":"(Christian Today) Ben Bradshaw MP warns Church of England its established status is at threat over civil partnerships stance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Labour MP Ben Bradshaw today told the House of Commons that &#8220;serious questions&#8221; will be asked about the Church of England&#8217;s established status if it stands by its position on opposite-sex civil partnerships.<\/p>\n<p>In the Commons on Thursday, Mr Bradshaw grilled Andrew Selous, the Second Church Estates Commissioner, on the guidance&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is bad enough that the Church still treats its LGBT+ members as second-class Christians, but to say to the child of a heterosexual couple in a civil partnership that they should not exist because their parents should not have had or be having sex is so hurtful,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Will he tell the bishops that unless this nonsense stops serious questions will be asked in this place about the legitimacy of the established status of the Church of England?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/article\/ben-bradshaw-mp-warns-church-of-england-its-established-status-is-at-threat-over-civil-partnerships-stance\/134180.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Ben Bradshaw MP warns Church of England its established status is at threat over civil partnerships stance <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6GiuyAlRcM\">https:\/\/t.co\/6GiuyAlRcM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christian Today (@ChristianToday) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristianToday\/status\/1225427964650819584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 6, 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>Labour MP Ben Bradshaw today told the House of Commons that &#8220;serious questions&#8221; will be asked about the Church of England&#8217;s established status if it stands by its position on opposite-sex civil partnerships. In the Commons on Thursday, Mr Bradshaw<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=89321\">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":[576,324,579,199,133,114,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-church-of-england","category-churchstate-matters","category-england-uk","category-history","category-law-legal-issues","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89321","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=89321"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89324,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89321\/revisions\/89324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}