{"id":18993,"date":"2013-03-12T18:38:41","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T22:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=18993"},"modified":"2013-03-12T18:38:41","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T22:38:41","slug":"victorias-christ-church-cathedral-to-begin-same-sex-blessings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/victorias-christ-church-cathedral-to-begin-same-sex-blessings\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria\u2019s Christ Church Cathedral to begin same-sex blessings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vicnews.com\/news\/197534271.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The congregation at Victoria\u2019s Christ Church Cathedral voted overwhelmingly last week to allow same-sex blessings in the church, more than a decade after Vancouver-area Anglican churches did the same.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Anglican church has been talking about this for more than 30 years,\u201d Rev. Logan McMenamie says.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026.]<\/p>\n<p>McMenamie laments the parish members he has lost because of the slow changes, but said more progress will be made at upcoming diocese gatherings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Don\u2019t worry about the members you have lost, Rev. Logan McMenamie. Now you are offering same-sex blessings, rejoice in the prospect of the hitherto reluctant hordes that will soon queue outside your doors every Sunday, eager to worship before the altar of your equality deities.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, it may work out more like those who have gone before you in pioneering compulsive inclusion &#8211; like the Dioceses of New Westminster and Niagara: you could find yourself scrambling to close dozens of empty churches every year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: The congregation at Victoria\u2019s Christ Church Cathedral voted overwhelmingly last week to allow same-sex blessings in the church, more than a decade after Vancouver-area Anglican churches did the same. \u201cThe Anglican church has been talking about this for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/victorias-christ-church-cathedral-to-begin-same-sex-blessings\/\">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":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[1324,1603],"class_list":["post-18993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-bc","tag-rev-logan-mcmenamie","tag-victorias-christ-church-cathedral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18993","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=18993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}