{"id":26726,"date":"2019-02-15T23:08:57","date_gmt":"2019-02-16T04:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=26726"},"modified":"2019-02-15T23:08:57","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T04:08:57","slug":"bishop-kevin-robertsons-spouse-will-not-be-invited-to-lambeth-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/bishop-kevin-robertsons-spouse-will-not-be-invited-to-lambeth-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Kevin Robertson&#8217;s spouse will not be invited to Lambeth 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The spouses of homosexual bishops will not be invited to attend Lambeth 2020 which means Toronto Bishop Kevin Robertson&#8217;s wife\/husband, Mohan Sharma, will not receive an invitation.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder whether Justin Welby has really thought this through. It&#8217;s only a matter of time before a male Anglican bishop marries another male Anglican bishop. I suspect the Anglican Church of Canada already has a matchmaking Task Force working strenuously to produce such a paradigm of proud diverse inclusion. What will Welby do when they succeed?<\/p>\n<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>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicannews.org\/blogs\/2019\/02\/the-global-excitement-about-lambeth-conference.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I need to clarify a misunderstanding that has arisen. Invitations have been sent to every active bishop. That is how it should be \u2013 we are recognising that all those consecrated into the office of bishop should be able to attend. But the invitation process has also needed to take account of the Anglican Communion\u2019s position on marriage which is that it is the lifelong union of a man and a woman. That is the position as set out in Resolution I.10 of the 1998 Lambeth Conference. Given this, it would be inappropriate for same-sex spouses to be invited to the conference. The Archbishop of Canterbury has had a series of private conversations by phone or by exchanges of letter with the few individuals to whom this applies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The spouses of homosexual bishops will not be invited to attend Lambeth 2020 which means Toronto Bishop Kevin Robertson&#8217;s wife\/husband, Mohan Sharma, will not receive an invitation. I wonder whether Justin Welby has really thought this through. It&#8217;s only a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/bishop-kevin-robertsons-spouse-will-not-be-invited-to-lambeth-2020\/\">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":[114],"tags":[2433,2186],"class_list":["post-26726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-toronto","tag-bishop-kevin-robertson","tag-justin-welby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26726","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=26726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}