{"id":12834,"date":"2011-04-26T14:18:58","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T18:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=12834"},"modified":"2011-04-26T14:18:58","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T18:18:58","slug":"tec-doesnt-want-to-include-james-mcgreevey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/tec-doesnt-want-to-include-james-mcgreevey\/","title":{"rendered":"TEC doesn\u2019t want to include James McGreevey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2011\/04\/priesthood_bid_of_former_gov_m.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Episcopal Church denied priesthood to former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/newyorkpost.com\/p\/news\/local\/heaven_can_wait_rzIVCJVENUl8mgCezXBUCJ\">The New York Post<\/a>. McGreevey may be famously remembered for resigning from his governor post in 2004 after coming out as a \u201cgay American\u201d and a series of gay flings despite his marriage to then-wife Dina Matos McGreevey.<\/p>\n<p>A statement regarding his rejection for priesthood has not been formally announced or commented on by the Episcopal Church, but The Post cites the Episcopal Diocese of Newark explaining, \u201cIt was not being gay but for being a jackass.\u201d The Episcopal church welcomes gay and lesbian priests and has since the organization lifted the ban in 2009.\u2026..<\/p>\n<p>Now living as an openly gay man, McGreevey resides with his partner, Mark O\u2019Donnell, in New Jersey where they share a mansion, according to NBC News<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is surprising since McGreevey has the all the qualifications that TEC values: he had gay <em>flings<\/em> while being married to a woman; he <em>came out; <\/em>he lives with his <em>gay partner;<\/em> and he\u2019s even a jackass. He sounds like bishop material to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: The Episcopal Church denied priesthood to former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey, according to The New York Post. McGreevey may be famously remembered for resigning from his governor post in 2004 after coming out as a \u201cgay American\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/tec-doesnt-want-to-include-james-mcgreevey\/\">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":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[302],"tags":[939,2262],"class_list":["post-12834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tec","tag-jim-mcgreevey","tag-tec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12834","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=12834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}