{"id":97730,"date":"2020-12-18T08:00:43","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=97730"},"modified":"2020-12-18T07:15:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T12:15:54","slug":"church-times-church-in-wales-issues-draft-bill-on-same-sex-blessings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=97730","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Church in Wales issues draft Bill on same-sex blessings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bishops of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/church-in-wales\">Church in Wales<\/a> have published their proposals to authorise formal blessings in church of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/same-sex-marriage\">same-sex partnerships<\/a> and marriages.<\/p>\n<p>A draft Bill that would permit the blessing in parish churches of same-sex couples after a civil partnership or civil wedding has been circulated to members of the Church\u2019s Governing Body ahead of a debate in April.<\/p>\n<p>In an explanatory memorandum, the Bishops acknowledge that scripture and Christian tradition have previously understood unions of one man and one woman as the only context for sexual relationships.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, with new social, scientific and psychological understandings of sexuality in the last one and a half centuries, we believe that same-sex relationships can be understood in a radically different way, and that the teaching of Scripture should therefore be re-interrogated,\u201d the Bishops write.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2020\/18-december\/news\/uk\/church-in-wales-issues-draft-bill-on-same-sex-blessings\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bishops of the Church in Wales have published their proposals to authorise formal blessings in church of same-sex partnerships and marriages. A draft Bill that would permit the blessing in parish churches of same-sex couples after a civil partnership<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=97730\">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":[576,445,175,405,168,108,112,79,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-wales-england-uk","category-anthropology","category-church-of-wales","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97730","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=97730"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97735,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97730\/revisions\/97735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}