{"id":23739,"date":"2016-01-17T15:20:15","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T20:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=23739"},"modified":"2016-01-17T15:21:13","modified_gmt":"2016-01-17T20:21:13","slug":"the-church-of-england-begins-the-spin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-church-of-england-begins-the-spin\/","title":{"rendered":"The Church of England begins the spin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Archbishop Foley Beach told us here<\/a>, that he was given the opportunity to vote during the Primates\u2019 gathering but declined:<\/p>\n

He said, however: \u201cI did not vote when it came to the Episcopal Church. In my conscience I didn’t feel that that was appropriate. I\u2019m not part of the official Anglican structures yet, although I\u2019m in communion with provinces that represent the majority of the Anglican Communion.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey basically gave out pieces of paper when it was time to vote, and I just refused it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yet, on the Primates2016 site<\/a>, we are being told:<\/p>\n

Statement on votes given to Primates at the meeting in Canterbury 17 Jan 2016
\nOn those occasions when the discussion required Primates to privately record a preference or a decision, slips were informally distributed around the tables and then collected. Apart from when the meeting agreed the agenda at the start, it was made clear to Archbishop Foley Beach that it would not be appropriate for him to take part and he was not invited to do so. Given the spirit of the meeting at all times, it is unfortunate that this is misrepresented in recent reports.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And the Director of Communications for the Church of England is insisting:<\/p>\n

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Someone is lying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Archbishop Foley Beach told us here, that he was given the opportunity to vote during the Primates\u2019 gathering but declined: He said, however: \u201cI did not vote when it came to the Episcopal Church. In my conscience I didn’t feel … 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":[14],"tags":[2344,1251],"class_list":["post-23739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican","tag-arun-arora","tag-primates-meeting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23739","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=23739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}