{"id":26641,"date":"2018-12-29T12:19:17","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T17:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=26641"},"modified":"2018-12-29T12:19:17","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T17:19:17","slug":"toronto-bishop-kevin-robertson-marries-his-same-sex-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/toronto-bishop-kevin-robertson-marries-his-same-sex-partner\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Bishop Kevin Robertson marries his same-sex partner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-26642\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/DvitORwV4AArKME.jpg-large-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/DvitORwV4AArKME.jpg-large-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/DvitORwV4AArKME.jpg-large-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/DvitORwV4AArKME.jpg-large-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/DvitORwV4AArKME.jpg-large-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/DvitORwV4AArKME.jpg-large.jpg 1596w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Robertson was married at St. James Cathedral. The Diocese of Niagara\u2019s Bishop Susan Bell presided, extinguishing any glimmer of hope that Bell would depart from the radically liberal agenda of her predecessor, Michael Bird.<\/p>\n<p>The Anglican Church of Canada will not officially perform same-sex marriages until the final vote to change the marriage canon takes place at the 2019 general synod. The fact that Robertson has ignored that detail confirms that, whichever way it goes, the 2019 vote will be as far removed from meaning anything as the ACoC is from Christianity.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toronto.anglican.ca\/2018\/12\/28\/bishop-robertson-married-at-cathedral\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Diocese of Toronto congratulates Bishop Kevin Robertson and Mr. Mohan Sharma, who were married today at St. James Cathedral in the presence of their two children, their families and many friends, including Archbishop Colin Johnson and Bishop Andrew Asbil.<\/p>\n<p>(Bishop Kevin and Mohan, who have been a couple since 2009, had their relationship blessed in 2016 according to the Pastoral Guidelines of the Diocese of Toronto and are now married under the marriage provision of the same guidelines.)<\/p>\n<p>We wish them much joy in their marriage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robertson was married at St. James Cathedral. The Diocese of Niagara\u2019s Bishop Susan Bell presided, extinguishing any glimmer of hope that Bell would depart from the radically liberal agenda of her predecessor, Michael Bird. The Anglican Church of Canada will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/toronto-bishop-kevin-robertson-marries-his-same-sex-partner\/\">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":8,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[2433],"class_list":["post-26641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-toronto","tag-bishop-kevin-robertson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26641","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=26641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}