{"id":90276,"date":"2020-03-05T16:20:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T21:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=90276"},"modified":"2020-03-05T18:24:24","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T23:24:24","slug":"newsletter-chruch-of-ireland-developments-i-did-the-church-and-society-commission-indicate-a-doctrinal-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=90276","title":{"rendered":"(Newsletter) Church of Ireland Developments (I)&#8211; Did the Church and Society Commission Indicate a Doctrinal Change?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Specifically the consultation (which ended on Sunday) asked the public for views on ensuring clergy are not forced to conduct&#8230;[same-sex] weddings.<\/p>\n<p>One of the questions asked in the consultation was this: \u201cDo you agree same-sex couples in NI should be permitted to convert their civil partnership to marriage?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The reply of the CoI commission was: \u201cYes. If it has been decided to legalise same-sex marriage in a territory where such couples were previously only able to form civil partnerships it should be permitted for them to convert such a partnership to a marriage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This appears to be in radical conflict with the long-standing position of the church, which is essentially that&#8230;[same-sex] marriage is impossible by definition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsletter.co.uk\/news\/politics\/same-sex-marriage-church-ireland-body-declares-gay-people-should-be-able-wed-1995930\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Specifically the consultation (which ended on Sunday) asked the public for views on ensuring clergy are not forced to conduct&#8230;[same-sex] weddings. One of the questions asked in the consultation was this: \u201cDo you agree same-sex couples in NI should be<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=90276\">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":[409,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-ireland","category-marriage-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90276","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=90276"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90279,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90276\/revisions\/90279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}