{"id":18201,"date":"2012-12-12T22:25:16","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T03:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=18201"},"modified":"2012-12-12T22:25:16","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T03:25:16","slug":"tolerance-and-inclusion-in-the-church-of-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/tolerance-and-inclusion-in-the-church-of-scotland\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolerance and inclusion in the Church of Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of Scotland has succumbed to the spirit of the age and is in the process of deciding to approve the ordination of clergy in same-sex relationships and the blessing of same-sex couples.<\/p>\n<p>Not all agree. Rev. Dr. William Philip doesn\u2019t, so his church is losing its building, Bibles, hymn books and an organ.<\/p>\n<p>What do the liberals want with <i>Bibles?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christian.org.uk\/news\/st-georges-tron-evicted-by-the-kirk-over-gay-clergy-row\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The minister of St George\u2019s Tron in Glasgow has preached his last sermon in the building, before the Church of Scotland seizes the premises.<\/p>\n<p>The congregation, which has been meeting in its Buchanan Street venue for more than 70 years, split from the Kirk in June over the ordination of openly homosexual ministers.<\/p>\n<p>Since then St George\u2019s Tron has been embroiled in a legal dispute about its building, which has recently undergone a \u00a32.6 million refurbishment paid for by its members.<br \/>\nLast Wednesday, law officers appeared at the church prayer meeting demanding the return of bibles, hymn books and an organ.<\/p>\n<p>The minister, Rev Dr William Philip, described the Kirk\u2019s actions as \u201cshameful\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cHaving law officers disrupt a church meeting and intimidate a church is something we associate with China or former Soviet dictatorships but is the last thing we expected from the so-called national Church.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of Scotland has succumbed to the spirit of the age and is in the process of deciding to approve the ordination of clergy in same-sex relationships and the blessing of same-sex couples. Not all agree. Rev. Dr. William &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/tolerance-and-inclusion-in-the-church-of-scotland\/\">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":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[279],"tags":[607,1289,1386],"class_list":["post-18201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-same-sex-blessings-2","tag-church-of-scotland","tag-rev-dr-william-philip","tag-same-sex-blessings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18201","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=18201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}