{"id":21388,"date":"2014-05-04T18:54:50","date_gmt":"2014-05-04T22:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=21388"},"modified":"2014-05-04T18:54:50","modified_gmt":"2014-05-04T22:54:50","slug":"bishop-gene-robinson-announces-his-divorce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/bishop-gene-robinson-announces-his-divorce\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Gene Robinson announces his divorce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2014\/05\/03\/gene-robinson-first-openly-gay-episcopal-bishop-divorce\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-21389\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/gene-mark.jpg\" alt=\"RNS CIVIL UNION\" width=\"186\" height=\"142\" \/>Bishop Gene Robinson, whose 2003 election as the first openly gay Episcopal bishop rocked Anglican Communion, has announced\u00a0his divorce from his longtime partner and husband.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026.]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs you can imagine, this is a difficult time for us \u2014 not a decision entered into lightly or without much counseling,\u201d Robinson wrote in a letter. \u201cWe ask for your prayers, that the love and care for each other that has characterized our relationship for a quarter century will continue in the difficult days ahead.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why, I wonder, is the other partner in an all male marriage often referred to as the \u201chusband\u201d, yielding a relationship with two husbands? Why isn\u2019t one of them a wife? The word \u201chusband\u201d comes from the Old Norse word <em>h\u016bsb\u014dndi,<\/em> meaning &#8220;master of a house&#8221;. The muddle is undoubtedly a corollary of the more profound confusion of two men pretending to be married: a marriage can\u2019t have two men and a house can\u2019t have two masters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: Bishop Gene Robinson, whose 2003 election as the first openly gay Episcopal bishop rocked Anglican Communion, has announced\u00a0his divorce from his longtime partner and husband. [\u2026.] \u201cAs you can imagine, this is a difficult time for us \u2014 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/bishop-gene-robinson-announces-his-divorce\/\">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":[173],"tags":[2153,1390],"class_list":["post-21388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homosexual-bishops","tag-gene-robinson","tag-same-sex-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21388","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=21388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}