{"id":16836,"date":"2012-07-07T12:57:23","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T16:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=16836"},"modified":"2012-07-07T12:57:23","modified_gmt":"2012-07-07T16:57:23","slug":"church-of-england-priests-banned-from-inappropriate-behaviour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/church-of-england-priests-banned-from-inappropriate-behaviour\/","title":{"rendered":"Church of England priests banned from \u201cinappropriate behaviour\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cunbecoming conduct&#8221; in question is membership in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bnp.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">BNP<\/a>, not sodomy; CofE priests are heaving a collective sigh of relief.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-18750709\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Church of England&#8217;s ruling synod is expected to ban clergy and church workers from belonging to organisations such as the British National Party.<\/p>\n<p>Clergy would be prevented from expressing support for groups the Church considers racially prejudiced.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters say the proposals could bring more racial diversity to a predominantly white Church clergy.<\/p>\n<p>General Synod members meeting in York will be asked to vote on an amendment to the Church&#8217;s disciplinary measures.<\/p>\n<p>This would make it &#8220;unbecoming&#8221; or &#8220;inappropriate&#8221; conduct for clergy to be members of a political party with policies and activities declared &#8220;incompatible&#8221; with Church teaching on race equality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cunbecoming conduct&#8221; in question is membership in the BNP, not sodomy; CofE priests are heaving a collective sigh of relief. From here: The Church of England&#8217;s ruling synod is expected to ban clergy and church workers from belonging to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/church-of-england-priests-banned-from-inappropriate-behaviour\/\">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":17,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[522,2089],"class_list":["post-16836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england","tag-bnp","tag-church-of-england"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16836","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=16836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}