{"id":26237,"date":"2018-07-12T23:26:52","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T03:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=26237"},"modified":"2018-07-12T23:28:32","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T03:28:32","slug":"an-archbishop-a-queen-and-an-imam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/an-archbishop-a-queen-and-an-imam\/","title":{"rendered":"An Archbishop, a Queen and an Imam"},"content":{"rendered":"

Didn\u2019t walk into a bar but they did find themselves together at Windsor Castle in this rather odd juxtaposition:<\/p>\n

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The Queen is flanked by Justin Welby who believes \u2013 although he is slippery about admitting it \u2013 in same sex-marriage and the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar who believes<\/a> homosexuality is \u201ccompletely strange to eastern men\u2026 who are naturally disgusted with such deviance\u201d.<\/p>\n

By rights Welby should regard the imam as a homophobe \u2013 except that would make Welby an Islamophobe. What a conundrum.<\/p>\n

My sympathy is with the Queen who was stuck in the middle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Didn\u2019t walk into a bar but they did find themselves together at Windsor Castle in this rather odd juxtaposition: The Queen is flanked by Justin Welby who believes \u2013 although he is slippery about admitting it \u2013 in same sex-marriage … 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":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[198],"tags":[2532,1264],"class_list":["post-26237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justin-welby","tag-grand-imam-of-al-azhar","tag-queen-elizabeth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26237","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=26237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}