{"id":4961,"date":"2009-07-18T13:11:45","date_gmt":"2009-07-18T17:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=4961"},"modified":"2009-07-18T13:11:45","modified_gmt":"2009-07-18T17:11:45","slug":"anglicanism-the-gay-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglicanism-the-gay-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglicanism: the gay church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to homosexual bishop, Gene Robinson, Anglicans should be proud of the fact that their denomination has become renowned for being the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingchurch.org\/news\/news-updates\/2009\/7\/8\/you-bet-we-are-the-gay-church-bishop-robinson-says\" target=\"_blank\">gay church<\/a>\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Episcopal Church should proudly wear the mantle of being known as the \u201cgay church,\u201d Bishop V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire told a lunchtime audience at General Convention July 8.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And the majority of North American Anglicans appear to <a href=\"http:\/\/communities.canada.com\/vancouversun\/blogs\/thesearch\/archive\/2009\/07\/17\/poll-explains-why-most-anglicans-support-homosexuals.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">agree with him<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Anglicans are far more gay-positive than the general North American population, suggests a poll.<br \/>\nAs Vancouver-area Anglicans await the judge\u2019s ruling on a court dispute over who controls four valuable church properties, a surprising poll shows that North American Anglicans are more gay-supportive than the population as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>Jews \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026&#8230;..\u00a0 79 per cent<br \/>\nSecular \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026&#8230;..\u00a0 75 per cent<br \/>\n<strong>Episcopalians (Anglicans)&#8230; 70 per cent<\/strong><br \/>\nCatholics \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026&#8230; 58 per cent<br \/>\nMainline Protestants \u2026\u2026\u2026&#8230; 55 per cent<br \/>\n<strong>U.S. population (general) &#8230;. 50 per cent<\/strong><br \/>\nMuslims\u00a0 \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026&#8230;. 27 per cent<br \/>\n<strong>White evangelicals \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 26 per cent<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How long will it take to get from gay-proud and gay-positive to gay-exclusive?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to homosexual bishop, Gene Robinson, Anglicans should be proud of the fact that their denomination has become renowned for being the \u201cgay church\u201d: The Episcopal Church should proudly wear the mantle of being known as the \u201cgay church,\u201d Bishop &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglicanism-the-gay-church\/\">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":5,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,177],"tags":[2031,2167],"class_list":["post-4961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-angst","category-homosexuality","tag-anglican-angst","tag-homosexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4961","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=4961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}