{"id":18691,"date":"2013-02-06T09:47:45","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T14:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=18691"},"modified":"2013-02-06T09:47:45","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T14:47:45","slug":"the-irresistible-anglican-momentum-towards-the-blessing-of-same-sex-couples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-irresistible-anglican-momentum-towards-the-blessing-of-same-sex-couples\/","title":{"rendered":"The irresistible Anglican momentum towards the blessing of same-sex couples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent Anglican gathering in Auckland New Zealand spent most of its time pondering the various possible combinations of sexual activity between humans, while stoutly maintaining that sex is unimportant in the life of the church.<\/p>\n<p>As an aside, it seems that in New Zealand at least, <i>Indaba<\/i> is out and <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/Hui\" target=\"_blank\">hui<\/a><\/i> is in. Considering the topic that dominated the <i>hui, <\/i>the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=hui\" target=\"_blank\">urban definition<\/a> might be more fitting.<\/p>\n<p>You can read a summary of the proceedings <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicancommunion.org\/acns\/digest\/index.cfm\/2013\/2\/6\/Church-edges-closer-to-samesex-blessings\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>; in such a wealth of nonsense, it is difficult to single out a particular part for special attention. But, in discussing her gay brethren, there is this from Bishop Victoria Matthews:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt is possible, I believe, to argue that a blessed union of man and woman or really any two or more people is able to bear fruit in a number of different ways.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Clearly, Victoria Matthews \u2013 who is Canadian \u2013 wants to disabuse anyone of the illusion that the Anglican pansexuality juggernaut will stop at blessing same-sex couples. Next will come the blessing of polyamorous relationships \u2013 and who knows what after that. Yes, Victoria, there is a slippery slope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent Anglican gathering in Auckland New Zealand spent most of its time pondering the various possible combinations of sexual activity between humans, while stoutly maintaining that sex is unimportant in the life of the church. As an aside, it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-irresistible-anglican-momentum-towards-the-blessing-of-same-sex-couples\/\">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":20,"footnotes":""},"categories":[279],"tags":[512],"class_list":["post-18691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-same-sex-blessings-2","tag-bishop-victoria-matthews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18691","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=18691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}