{"id":4996,"date":"2009-07-22T22:59:04","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T02:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=4996"},"modified":"2009-07-22T22:59:04","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T02:59:04","slug":"diocese-of-niagara-reaction-to-same-sex-blessing-rite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/diocese-of-niagara-reaction-to-same-sex-blessing-rite\/","title":{"rendered":"Diocese of Niagara: Reaction to same-sex blessing rite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bishop of Caledonia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanjournal.com\/nc\/100\/article\/deep-divide-over-sexuality-continues\/\" target=\"_blank\">doesn\u2019t approve<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAs a bishop, I cannot recognize the legitimacy of what Niagara is doing,\u201d said Bishop Bill Anderson of the diocese of Caledonia. \u201cI sadly conclude that Niagara has chosen to walk apart, and is therefore in a state of impaired communion.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bishop Bird from the Niagara Diocese claims, however, that the blessing of same-sex-couples is prophetic, not contrary to the core doctrine of the ACoC &#8211; many people have searched for years and still have found nothing that is contrary to the core doctrine of the ACoC \u2013 and is fully in line with the typical Anglican heterosexual wedding:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4997\" title=\"Anglican Wedding\" src=\"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/anglican-wedding1.jpg\" alt=\"Anglican Wedding\" width=\"261\" height=\"565\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bishop of Caledonia doesn\u2019t approve: \u201cAs a bishop, I cannot recognize the legitimacy of what Niagara is doing,\u201d said Bishop Bill Anderson of the diocese of Caledonia. \u201cI sadly conclude that Niagara has chosen to walk apart, and is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/diocese-of-niagara-reaction-to-same-sex-blessing-rite\/\">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":[110],"tags":[2111],"class_list":["post-4996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-niagara","tag-diocese-of-niagara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4996","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=4996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}