{"id":22902,"date":"2015-05-01T20:56:48","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T00:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=22902"},"modified":"2015-05-01T20:56:48","modified_gmt":"2015-05-02T00:56:48","slug":"why-michael-coren-is-no-longer-a-roman-catholic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/why-michael-coren-is-no-longer-a-roman-catholic\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Michael Coren is no longer a Roman Catholic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s all <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/news\/religion\/i-felt-a-hypocrite-author-michael-coren-on-why-he-left-the-catholic-church-for-anglicanism?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, although the nub of it seems to be:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I could not remain in a church that effectively excluded gay people. That\u2019s only one of the reasons, but for someone who had taken the Catholic position on same-sex marriage for so long, I\u2019d never been comfortable with that even though I suppose I was regarded as being a stalwart in that position. But I\u2019d moved on, and I felt a hypocrite. I felt a hypocrite being part of a church that described homosexual relations as being disordered and sinful. I just couldn\u2019t be part of it anymore. I could not do that. I couldn\u2019t look people in the eye and make the argument that is still so central to the Catholic Church, that same-sex attraction is acceptable but to act on it is sinful. I felt that the circle of love had to be broadened, not reduced.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have a strong suspicion that he won\u2019t be particularly comfortable being an Anglican either; luckily there are about 21,000 other Christian denominations still to try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s all here, although the nub of it seems to be: I could not remain in a church that effectively excluded gay people. That\u2019s only one of the reasons, but for someone who had taken the Catholic position on same-sex &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/why-michael-coren-is-no-longer-a-roman-catholic\/\">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":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2032,1079,1369],"class_list":["post-22902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-michael-coren","tag-roman-catholic-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22902","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=22902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}