{"id":21512,"date":"2014-05-14T21:23:38","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T01:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=21512"},"modified":"2014-05-14T21:36:14","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T01:36:14","slug":"justin-welby-declares-that-gay-marriage-is-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/justin-welby-declares-that-gay-marriage-is-great\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Welby declares that gay marriage is great"},"content":{"rendered":"

Justin Welby, for reasons known only to himself, decided to be interviewed by PinkNews, a \u201cgay news service\u201d. What he said<\/a> was revealing:<\/p>\n

When asked if he had a \u2018message\u2019 for Britain\u2019s LGBT community, Archbishop Welby told PinkNews.co.uk: \u201cAs you know I have said, and got a fair amount of flak for it within parts of the Church, we have to accept, and quite rightly, that the same-sex marriage act is law, and that it\u2019s right and proper, it\u2019s the law of the land, and that\u2019s great.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This has prompted Lambeth Palace<\/a> to call on its ready supply of advanced hermeneutics to obnubilate what Welby said in order rob it of its obvious meaning and render it harmless:<\/p>\n

Lambeth Palace insisted that despite the initiative, the Archbishop remained opposed in principle to same-sex marriage and that he had been speaking about the right of Parliament to change the law when he used the word \u201cgreat\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No-one still in possession of his faculties could possibly believe Lambeth\u2019s reinterpretation of what Webly plainly said, in spite of the fact that Lambeth’s theologians have been honing their obfuscatory skills on the Biblical texts for decades; so I\u2019m quite certain Welby will be sent for clerical woolly-speak re-education when he returns home. And he won’t be let out again without his handlers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Justin Welby, for reasons known only to himself, decided to be interviewed by PinkNews, a \u201cgay news service\u201d. What he said was revealing: When asked if he had a \u2018message\u2019 for Britain\u2019s LGBT community, Archbishop Welby told PinkNews.co.uk: \u201cAs you … Continue reading →<\/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":[198],"tags":[2186,1390],"class_list":["post-21512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justin-welby","tag-justin-welby","tag-same-sex-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21512","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=21512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}