{"id":4939,"date":"2009-07-16T16:33:26","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T20:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=4939"},"modified":"2009-07-16T16:33:26","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T20:33:26","slug":"general-convention-2009-it-isnt-all-about-sex-its-also-about-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/general-convention-2009-it-isnt-all-about-sex-its-also-about-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"General Convention 2009: it isn\u2019t all about sex, it\u2019s also about politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theird.org\/Page.aspx?pid=1101\" target=\"_blank\">Left wing politics<\/a>, of course:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The 2 million member and fracturing Episcopal Church is currently convened in its governing General Convention in Anaheim, California, and seemingly poised, in between affirmations of same-sex unions and transgenderism, to condemn Israel as the focus of Middle Eastern strife.<\/p>\n<p>There are no resolutions currently before this year&#8217;s Episcopal General Convention directly criticizing any government in the world, except two: Israel and the United States. Resolutions mention human rights abuses in the Philippines and strife in southern Sudan but decline to criticize governments there, though surely Sudan&#8217;s Islamist regime, dripping with blood of millions of victims, might merit some disapproval. There is no criticism of any Muslim or communist dictatorship around the world, though Cuba&#8217;s Marxist regime is portrayed by one resolution as the victim of U.S. sanctions. In contrast, about a half dozen statements for consideration before the General Convention are aimed at Israel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Left wing politics, of course: The 2 million member and fracturing Episcopal Church is currently convened in its governing General Convention in Anaheim, California, and seemingly poised, in between affirmations of same-sex unions and transgenderism, to condemn Israel as the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/general-convention-2009-it-isnt-all-about-sex-its-also-about-politics\/\">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":[15,256],"tags":[2031,2227],"class_list":["post-4939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-angst","category-politics","tag-anglican-angst","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4939","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=4939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}