{"id":9541,"date":"2008-11-11T18:56:13","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T18:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/mp_speaks_out_in_favour_of_continued_establishment_of_the_church_of_england\/"},"modified":"2008-11-11T18:56:13","modified_gmt":"2008-11-11T18:56:13","slug":"mp_speaks_out_in_favour_of_continued_establishment_of_the_church_of_england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9541","title":{"rendered":"MP speaks out in favour of continued establishment of the Church of England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Disestablished Church is not part of a truly liberal society, the British MP Sir Alan Beith has said.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the Liberal Democrat Christian Forum&#8217;s inaugural Gladstone Lecture, Sir Alan told members of the Liberal Democrat party that &#8220;disestablishment is not a necessary feature of a diverse and multi-cultural society.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;I know of no evidence that significant numbers of Muslims, Jews, Hindus or Sikhs are at all interested in getting the Church of England disestablished, and it is no longer a popular view with nonconformists or Catholics as it was a century ago.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religiousintelligence.co.uk\/news\/?NewsID=3262\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Disestablished Church is not part of a truly liberal society, the British MP Sir Alan Beith has said. Speaking at the Liberal Democrat Christian Forum&#8217;s inaugural Gladstone Lecture, Sir Alan told members of the Liberal Democrat party that &#8220;disestablishment<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9541\">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":[36,39,50,74,389,199,114,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-law-legal-issues","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9541","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=9541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}