{"id":21368,"date":"2014-04-26T22:24:54","date_gmt":"2014-04-27T02:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=21368"},"modified":"2014-04-26T22:24:54","modified_gmt":"2014-04-27T02:24:54","slug":"african-bishops-concerned-about-clergy-flouting-a-ban-on-same-sex-weddings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/african-bishops-concerned-about-clergy-flouting-a-ban-on-same-sex-weddings\/","title":{"rendered":"African bishops concerned about clergy flouting a ban on same-sex weddings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2614066\/Church-England-split-fear-African-bishops-speak-clergy-flouting-ban-sex-weddings.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby was last night facing mounting pressure to crack down on clergy who marry their gay partners \u2013 as the threat of a split in the Anglican Church grew.<\/p>\n<p>A powerful group of conservative African Archbishops said they were \u2018deeply troubled\u2019 by liberal Western attitudes towards homosexuality and that Church of England clerics were flouting a ban on same-sex weddings.<\/p>\n<p>The Archbishops said it was \u2018very concerning\u2019 that the ban was being \u2018openly disregarded\u2019 and added: \u2018We look to the Church of England to give clear leadership as moral confusion about the status of marriage [in England] deepens.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m sure the GAFCON bishops know this already, but looking to the Church of England to provide moral leadership on the nature of marriage is going to be as fruitful as asking a madam to elaborate on the virtues of chastity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby was last night facing mounting pressure to crack down on clergy who marry their gay partners \u2013 as the threat of a split in the Anglican Church grew. A powerful group of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/african-bishops-concerned-about-clergy-flouting-a-ban-on-same-sex-weddings\/\">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":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[2089,2149],"class_list":["post-21368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gafcon","tag-church-of-england","tag-gafcon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21368","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=21368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}