{"id":26494,"date":"2018-10-31T21:43:21","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T01:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=26494"},"modified":"2018-10-31T21:43:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T01:43:21","slug":"deconsecration-and-transgender-remembrance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/deconsecration-and-transgender-remembrance\/","title":{"rendered":"Deconsecration and Transgender Remembrance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/londonanglican.wordpress.com\/2008\/11\/05\/bishop-cronyn-memorial-church\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bishop Cronyn Memorial Church<\/a> in the Diocese of Huron is inclusive:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bishop Cronyn Memorial\u2019s core values speak to inclusivity. The church treats all as made in God\u2019s image, regardless of race, gender, orientation, age, ability, nationality or economic class.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is so inclusive that on November 7<sup>th<\/sup> it is being deconsecrated due to a lack of attendees. Shortly after that, on November 19<sup>th<\/sup> a Transgender Day of Remembrance will be held in the building. I don\u2019t suppose the two are connected.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-26495\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/tdor.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"436\" height=\"608\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The church was named after Benjamin Cronyn, London\u2019s first resident Anglican clergyman and the first bishop in the Huron Diocese. Cronyn had an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biographi.ca\/en\/bio\/cronyn_benjamin_10E.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eventful and colourfu<\/a>l life but I don&#8217;t suppose that even his most fevered nightmares could have conjured up the antics that would be embraced by a church that was to bear his name.<\/p>\n<p>For those attending, be warned, the bathrooms are:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26496\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/gendered.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"163\" height=\"48\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That means the you must relieve yourself in a location determined by your chromosomes, not your whimsy. Pretty upsetting, I know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop Cronyn Memorial Church in the Diocese of Huron is inclusive: Bishop Cronyn Memorial\u2019s core values speak to inclusivity. The church treats all as made in God\u2019s image, regardless of race, gender, orientation, age, ability, nationality or economic class. It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/deconsecration-and-transgender-remembrance\/\">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":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[2551],"class_list":["post-26494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-huron","tag-bishop-cronyn-memorial-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26494","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=26494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}