{"id":27075,"date":"2019-05-03T15:16:26","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T19:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=27075"},"modified":"2019-05-03T16:42:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T20:42:00","slug":"ontario-house-of-bishops-complain-about-lambeth-same-sex-spouse-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/ontario-house-of-bishops-complain-about-lambeth-same-sex-spouse-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario House of Bishops complains about Lambeth same-sex spouse ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ontario House of Bishops claims in the letter below that a <em>&#8220;diversity of theological positions&#8221;<\/em> lurks somewhere in its midst, ready to spring out and surprise everyone. To demonstrate this diversity, the bishops are all making the same point by signing a letter complaining that Bishop Kevin Robertson&#8217;s husband&#8230; wife?\u00a0 let&#8217;s stick to the nondescript &#8220;spouse&#8221; has not been invited to Lambeth 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the diverse bunch, including, on the right, Michael Bird even though he is an ex-bishop. You will notice in the very centre is what appears to be a robotic bishop from whom, I suspect, flow all the deeper nuances of theological diversity that were used to program the drones surrounding it:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27079\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Ontario-HoB-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"805\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Ontario-HoB-1024x768.jpg 805w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Ontario-HoB-1024x768-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Ontario-HoB-1024x768-768x520.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Ontario-HoB-1024x768-443x300.jpg 443w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 805px) 100vw, 805px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And here is the letter:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Ontario-HoB-Letter-on-Lambeth-2019-05-01.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-27077\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/2019-05-03_135545-655x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"913\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/2019-05-03_135545-655x1024.jpg 655w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/2019-05-03_135545-192x300.jpg 192w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/2019-05-03_135545-768x1200.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/2019-05-03_135545.jpg 837w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ontario House of Bishops claims in the letter below that a &#8220;diversity of theological positions&#8221; lurks somewhere in its midst, ready to spring out and surprise everyone. To demonstrate this diversity, the bishops are all making the same point &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/ontario-house-of-bishops-complain-about-lambeth-same-sex-spouse-ban\/\">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":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2590],"tags":[2564,1390],"class_list":["post-27075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecclesiastical-province-of-ontario","tag-bishop-kevin-roberston","tag-same-sex-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27075","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=27075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}