{"id":12178,"date":"2011-03-13T11:30:55","date_gmt":"2011-03-13T16:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=12178"},"modified":"2011-03-13T11:30:55","modified_gmt":"2011-03-13T16:30:55","slug":"vicar-dons-miniskirt-and-gold-tights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/vicar-dons-miniskirt-and-gold-tights\/","title":{"rendered":"Vicar dons miniskirt and gold tights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1365796\/Vicar-retires-church-tart-costume-fancy-dress-charity-party-causes-outrage.html?ITO=1490\">here<\/a>:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12179\" title=\"Tarty vicar\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Tarty-vicar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"366\" height=\"326\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A vicar who outraged his parishioners when he dressed as a \u2018tart\u2019 for a fundraising costume party has retired from the Church.<\/p>\n<p>The Reverend Martin Wray left his position at St Lawrence the Martyr Church in Horsley Hill, South Shields, after being on sick leave for several months following his part in the charity bash.<\/p>\n<p>The 59-year-old was photographed at the\u00a0 \u2018vicars and tarts\u2019 party wearing a mini-skirt, gold leggings and high heels at the town\u2019s Steamboat pub on the Mill Dam in August last year.<\/p>\n<p>What was meant to be a fun event though caused a stir at the church, with some of the congregation believing the published photograph of the vicar as a \u2018tart\u2019 brought his\u00a0 parish into disrepute.<\/p>\n<p>But friends of Mr Wray, who entered into a gay partnership last May and who continues to live in the town, said the whole episode had \u2018a whiff of homophobia\u2019 about it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It brings home just how muddled the Church of England has become when a vicar has to don a miniskirt and gold tights <em>in addition<\/em> to having a homosexual lover before his parishioners suspect something untoward is going on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: A vicar who outraged his parishioners when he dressed as a \u2018tart\u2019 for a fundraising costume party has retired from the Church. The Reverend Martin Wray left his position at St Lawrence the Martyr Church in Horsley Hill, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/vicar-dons-miniskirt-and-gold-tights\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[463,2166,1352],"class_list":["post-12178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homosexual-priests","tag-barmy-vicars","tag-homosexual-priests","tag-reverend-martin-wray"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}