{"id":21528,"date":"2014-05-21T09:53:59","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T13:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=21528"},"modified":"2014-05-21T09:57:58","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T13:57:58","slug":"church-of-england-house-of-bishops-makes-a-statement-on-human-sexuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/church-of-england-house-of-bishops-makes-a-statement-on-human-sexuality\/","title":{"rendered":"Church of England House of Bishops makes a statement on human sexuality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchofengland.org\/media-centre\/news\/2014\/05\/house-of-bishops-statement.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The House also discussed the next steps in the process for conversations around Human Sexuality. In its discussion the House noted that the process of shared conversations needed to demonstrate primarily how the Church of England could model living together with issues of tension, where members took opposing views whilst remaining committed to one another as disciples of Jesus Christ &#8211; members of one church in both unity and diversity. The House agreed to a proposed process and timescale for the conversations with regional discussions taking place over the next two years. The House also authorised its Standing Committee to sign off the final arrangements and materials.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Canadian Anglicans should have a feeling of <em>d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu<\/em> reading this; the mindless repeating of empty clich\u00e9s while \u201cliving together with issues of tension\u201d doesn\u2019t work. <em>Conversations<\/em> about same-sex blessings will lead to many dioceses performing them as a <em>generous pastoral response<\/em>. Then, after the initial strenuous assertions that this is all about blessings and not marriage have been largely forgotten, further <em>conversations<\/em> will begin about altering the marriage canon to include same-sex couples.<\/p>\n<p>The liberal juggernaut is in motion and conversations are not going to stop it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: The House also discussed the next steps in the process for conversations around Human Sexuality. In its discussion the House noted that the process of shared conversations needed to demonstrate primarily how the Church of England could model &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/church-of-england-house-of-bishops-makes-a-statement-on-human-sexuality\/\">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":[85],"tags":[2089,1386],"class_list":["post-21528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england","tag-church-of-england","tag-same-sex-blessings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21528","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=21528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}