{"id":14884,"date":"2011-11-10T08:53:19","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T13:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=14884"},"modified":"2011-11-10T08:53:19","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T13:53:19","slug":"anglican-clergyman-agues-for-civil-same-sex-marriage-before-australian-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-clergyman-agues-for-civil-same-sex-marriage-before-australian-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglican clergyman agues for civil same-sex marriage before Australian parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The very Reverend Peter Catt reckons that same sex marriage doesn\u2019t <em>impinge on marriage at all, <\/em>even though it unavoidably changes the Biblical definition of marriage from a divinely established covenant between a man and a woman to something arbitrary and man-made. Rev. Peter Catt is Dean of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stjohnscathedral.com.au\/worship\/sermons.html\" target=\"_blank\">St. John\u2019s Cathedral<\/a>, so perhaps he hasn\u2019t been able to find the time to read the Bible.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.couriermail.com.au\/news\/queensland\/gay-couples-against-queensland-bid-to-recognise-civil-unions-says-australian-christian-lobby\/story-e6freoof-1226191089694\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>THE Anglican Church of Australia&#8217;s Very Reverend Peter Catt says a same-sex marriage Bill would not deny or denigrate the legitimacy of marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the parliamentary hearing on same-sex marriage on behalf of the church&#8217;s social responsibilities committee, Dr Catt said civil unions instead extended the liberties of same or opposite-sex couples.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I really don&#8217;t see that this impinges on marriage at all,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said children were better off in a relationship with good values, which included gay couples, and said bad marriages actually did more to undermine the institution of marriage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The very Reverend Peter Catt reckons that same sex marriage doesn\u2019t impinge on marriage at all, even though it unavoidably changes the Biblical definition of marriage from a divinely established covenant between a man and a woman to something arbitrary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-clergyman-agues-for-civil-same-sex-marriage-before-australian-parliament\/\">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":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[280],"tags":[2030,1333,1390],"class_list":["post-14884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-same-sex-marriage-2","tag-anglican","tag-rev-peter-catt","tag-same-sex-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14884","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=14884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}