{"id":20966,"date":"2014-01-28T13:13:16","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T18:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=20966"},"modified":"2014-01-28T13:14:55","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T18:14:55","slug":"the-church-of-england-hair-splitting-pantomime-farce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-church-of-england-hair-splitting-pantomime-farce\/","title":{"rendered":"The Church of England hair-splitting pantomime farce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/americananglican.org\/current-news\/archbishop-welby-on-sexuality-and-the-anglican-communion\/\" target=\"_blank\">recent interview<\/a>, Justin Welby, channelling the shade of Rowan Williams, declared that same-sex <i>unions<\/i> are perfectly fine \u2013 commendable even \u2013 with him but same sex <i>marriages<\/i> are not. He offered no explanation \u2013 perhaps because there isn\u2019t one:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My own view on same-sex marriage is one thing; my own view on same-sex unions is: I recognize, again I have said in public, the immense quality and profound love and commitment of many same-sex unions. I don\u2019t think that marriage is the appropriate way forward.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He omitted the word \u201cyet\u201d after \u201cforward\u201d; I know he was thinking it, though.<\/p>\n<p>The same-sex part begins around 13:30:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ir2Cj0Jk3Zo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent interview, Justin Welby, channelling the shade of Rowan Williams, declared that same-sex unions are perfectly fine \u2013 commendable even \u2013 with him but same sex marriages are not. He offered no explanation \u2013 perhaps because there isn\u2019t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-church-of-england-hair-splitting-pantomime-farce\/\">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":16,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[2089,1390],"class_list":["post-20966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england","tag-church-of-england","tag-same-sex-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20966","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=20966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}