{"id":21070,"date":"2014-03-03T17:37:17","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T22:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=21070"},"modified":"2014-03-04T10:52:37","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T15:52:37","slug":"church-of-england-vicar-wants-to-marry-his-male-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/church-of-england-vicar-wants-to-marry-his-male-partner\/","title":{"rendered":"Church of England vicar wants to marry his male partner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kilburntimes.co.uk\/news\/gay_vicar_from_kilburn_to_defy_church_leaders_by_marrying_atheist_partner_1_3393070\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-21071\" alt=\"Cain-Foreshew\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Cain-Foreshew.jpg\" width=\"213\" height=\"154\" \/>A gay vicar from Kilburn has vowed to marry his partner of 14 years despite the risk that he could be thrown out of the Church of England.<\/p>\n<p>Fr Andrew Cain from St Mary\u2019s with All Souls, revealed his engagement to fianc\u00e9 Stephen Foreshew, an atheist, on Valentine\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p>He stated firmly that he planned to ignore edicts sent down from his own church leaders that described marriage as only a \u201clifelong union between one man and one woman\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have a suggestion for Messrs. Cain and Foreshew: move to Canada. Since the Anglican Church of Canada worships the triune god of Inclusion, Diversity and Homo-erotic sex, along with assorted demigods\u00a0 &#8211; eco-justice, utopianism and smudging among others &#8211; you will be welcomed with open arms. The additional benefit of your wife-husband being an atheist would make you a shoe-in. I\u2019d start with an application to the <a href=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/diocese-of-montreal\/diocese-of-montreal-ordains-a-married-couple-two-men\/\" target=\"_blank\">Diocese of Montreal<\/a>, if I were you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: A gay vicar from Kilburn has vowed to marry his partner of 14 years despite the risk that he could be thrown out of the Church of England. Fr Andrew Cain from St Mary\u2019s with All Souls, revealed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/church-of-england-vicar-wants-to-marry-his-male-partner\/\">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":5,"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[2089,2109,1766,2166],"class_list":["post-21070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homosexual-priests","tag-church-of-england","tag-diocese-of-montreal","tag-fr-andrew-cain","tag-homosexual-priests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21070","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=21070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}