{"id":9319,"date":"2008-10-30T18:16:33","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T18:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/globe_and_mail_same_sex_blessings_split_canadian_anglicans\/"},"modified":"2008-10-30T18:16:33","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T18:16:33","slug":"globe_and_mail_same_sex_blessings_split_canadian_anglicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9319","title":{"rendered":"Globe and Mail: Same-sex blessings split Canadian Anglicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Anglican bishops of Ottawa and Montreal have taken decisive steps toward allowing the blessing of same-sex unions in their dioceses, a move certain to further undermine the fragile cohesion of the world&#8217;s third-largest Christian denomination.<\/p>\n<p>The two bishops have made known their intention to proceed, despite a moratorium on the blessings agreed to at last summer&#8217;s Lambeth Conference in England, the decennial gathering of bishops of the nearly 80-million-member Anglican Communion.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian church already is further along the road to authorizing same-sex blessings than any other branch of the communion, a decentralized body of 38 national and regional autonomous churches, or provinces.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/LAC.20081030.CHURCH30\/TPStory\/National\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Anglican bishops of Ottawa and Montreal have taken decisive steps toward allowing the blessing of same-sex unions in their dioceses, a move certain to further undermine the fragile cohesion of the world&#8217;s third-largest Christian denomination. The two bishops have<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9319\">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":[36,388,74,514,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-church-of-canada","category-anglican-provinces","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9319","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=9319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}