{"id":26488,"date":"2018-10-30T21:44:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T01:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=26488"},"modified":"2018-10-30T22:51:59","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T02:51:59","slug":"making-the-way-less-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/making-the-way-less-straight\/","title":{"rendered":"Making the way less straight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Anglican Church, having given up on being \u201cthe voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord&#8221;, has opted instead for an alliance between the straight and less than straight:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-26489\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2018-LGBTQ6-Nov17-768x994.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"590\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This began at St. Paul\u2019s when the teacher promoting it couldn\u2019t drum up any support from students at her school. She knew Anglicans are willing to try anything so long as it is not Biblical.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toronto.anglican.ca\/uploads.php?id=5bd6fd4712d04\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Uxbridge church starts Gay\/Straight Alliance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WHEN Kathleen Caroll, a member of St. Paul, Uxbridge and a teacher at a local school, proposed that the students at the school form a rainbow by wearing different coloured t-shirts in honour of Pride Week, she was met with a negative response. Out of that experience came the creation of the Uxbridge Gay\/Straight Alliance, which meets at the church.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Toronto bishop Kevin Robertson leant his support:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26490\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Annotation.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"543\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Annotation.png 543w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Annotation-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Annotation-500x281.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 543px) 100vw, 543px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Anglican Church, having given up on being \u201cthe voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord&#8221;, has opted instead for an alliance between the straight and less than straight: This began at St. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/making-the-way-less-straight\/\">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":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2550],"tags":[2433],"class_list":["post-26488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gay-straight-alliance","tag-bishop-kevin-robertson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26488","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=26488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}