{"id":22576,"date":"2015-02-17T22:07:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T03:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=22576"},"modified":"2015-02-17T22:07:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T03:07:00","slug":"sizers-demise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/sizers-demise\/","title":{"rendered":"Sizer\u2019s Demise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Sizer is a Church of England evangelical, a member of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reform_(Anglican)\" target=\"_blank\">Reform<\/a> and a supporter of GAFCON. He also seems to hate Israel, a character flaw that has finally caught up with him: the Church of England has banned him from commenting on the Middle East and from using social media.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009 he objected strenuously to my <a href=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-angst\/even-evangelicals-can-be-balmy\/\" target=\"_blank\">calling him barmy<\/a>, a view of which I have yet to be disabused.<\/p>\n<p>Here he is posing with his terrorist friend, Yasser Arafat:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-22577\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Sizer-Arafat-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"Sizer Arafat\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Sizer-Arafat-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Sizer-Arafat-463x300.jpg 463w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Sizer-Arafat.jpg 778w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And here is the Bishop of Guildford attempting to repair the latest damage:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oiyBVexNcT0#t=87<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Sizer is a Church of England evangelical, a member of Reform and a supporter of GAFCON. He also seems to hate Israel, a character flaw that has finally caught up with him: the Church of England has banned him &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/sizers-demise\/\">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":[191],"tags":[1956,1486],"class_list":["post-22576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-israel","tag-bishop-of-guildford","tag-stephen-sizer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22576","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=22576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}