{"id":21852,"date":"2014-08-04T16:46:14","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T20:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=21852"},"modified":"2014-08-04T16:48:32","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T20:48:32","slug":"married-gay-priest-to-sue-the-church-of-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/married-gay-priest-to-sue-the-church-of-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Married gay priest to sue the Church of England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of all the absurd things that the Church of England says and does, it is interesting that Rev Jeremy Pemberton has chosen to mount a legal challenge to the Church\u2019s following its own clearly stated rules. Surely he is not\u00a0motivated by self-interest?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-21854\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Rev-Jeremy-Pemberton-and-wife-300x242.jpg\" alt=\"Rev Jeremy Pemberton and wife\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Rev-Jeremy-Pemberton-and-wife-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Rev-Jeremy-Pemberton-and-wife-371x300.jpg 371w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Rev-Jeremy-Pemberton-and-wife.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/aug\/04\/church-legal-challenge-blocking-job-offer-married-gay-priest\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The first priest to marry his same-sex partner is to issue a legal challenge to the Church of England after his offer of a job as an NHS chaplain was withdrawn when his bishop refused the necessary permission. The Rev Jeremy Pemberton, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2014\/apr\/13\/gay-marriage-church-of-england-chaplain-jeremy-pemberton\" target=\"_blank\">who married Laurence Cunnington in April<\/a>, was informed on Friday that Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS trust had withdrawn its offer of a job after Bishop Richard Inwood had refused him the official licence in the diocese of Southwell and Nottingham. &#8220;It this is not challenged,&#8221; Pemberton said on Sunday, &#8220;it will send a message to all chaplains of whom a considerable number are gay and lesbian. This is an area of law that has not been tested and needs to be.&#8221; Anglican clergy are allowed to enter civil partnerships, but the House of Bishops has forbidden them to marry their same-sex partners, at least until a two-year discussion process within the church has been completed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of all the absurd things that the Church of England says and does, it is interesting that Rev Jeremy Pemberton has chosen to mount a legal challenge to the Church\u2019s following its own clearly stated rules. Surely he is not\u00a0motivated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/married-gay-priest-to-sue-the-church-of-england\/\">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":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[2089,1857],"class_list":["post-21852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homosexual-priests","tag-church-of-england","tag-rev-jeremy-pemberton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21852","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=21852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}