{"id":5411,"date":"2009-08-28T16:06:07","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T20:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=5411"},"modified":"2009-08-28T16:06:07","modified_gmt":"2009-08-28T20:06:07","slug":"gay-clergy-are-a-gift-from-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/gay-clergy-are-a-gift-from-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Gay clergy are a gift from God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2009\/aug\/28\/gay-bishop-attack-church-england\" target=\"_blank\">Gene Robinson<\/a>:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/static.guim.co.uk\/sys-images\/Guardian\/Pix\/pictures\/2009\/8\/28\/1251470549274\/Gene-Robinson-the-openly--001.jpg\" alt=\"Add an Image\" width=\"230\" height=\"138\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gene Robinson, the Episcopalian bishop of New Hampshire, criticised the policy of the Church of England towards gay and lesbian clergy. Alluding to the significant number of clergy who are gay, he said: &#8220;I think gay clergy in the Church of England are thought of as a problem to be solved or at least lived with, rather than a gift from God.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If gay clergy are a gift from God, it is a very strange gift, not unlike the Greeks&#8217; gift to Troy. Once the gift is unwrapped and the clergy have come out, chaos will run amok leaving destruction \u2013 at least of the western Anglican church \u2013 in its path. Which leaves one wondering which god has given the gift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Gene Robinson: Gene Robinson, the Episcopalian bishop of New Hampshire, criticised the policy of the Church of England towards gay and lesbian clergy. Alluding to the significant number of clergy who are gay, he said: &#8220;I think gay &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/gay-clergy-are-a-gift-from-god\/\">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":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,177],"tags":[2031,2167],"class_list":["post-5411","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\/5411","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=5411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}