{"id":5526,"date":"2009-09-04T00:08:28","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T04:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=5526"},"modified":"2009-09-04T00:08:28","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T04:08:28","slug":"thrusting-in-the-diocese-of-niagara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/thrusting-in-the-diocese-of-niagara\/","title":{"rendered":"Thrusting in the Diocese of Niagara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Michael Bird\u2019s announcement that the diocese of Niagara is to offer the blessing of same-sex couples this September (triads next September), it is only natural that the diocesan hegemony has its mind set on thrusting. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagara.anglican.ca\/newspaper\/article-archive.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Here\u2019s<\/a> the proof:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Donate Online<br \/>\nYour donation will help us thrust the Niagara Anglican into the future &#8211; communicating the Gospel and the good news of our Anglican tradition to generations to come.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Clearly, without a sufficient degree of thrusting, the Niagara Anglican tabloid is unlikely to find its way unassisted into the future; which would be a shame, since it is of an ideal consistency physically, spiritually and intellectually to make excellent kitty litter when ground up.<\/p>\n<p>It would be remiss of me if I failed to draw attention to the gospel contained in this potential cat commode liner: it is none other that <em>the good news of our Anglican tradition<\/em> which, by and large, avoids any reference to God, Jesus, sin, atonement or any other of those embarrassingly lunatic notions peddled by rabid fundamentalists.<\/p>\n<p>So, donate today or I will have to start buying commercial remedies to absorb feline feculence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Michael Bird\u2019s announcement that the diocese of Niagara is to offer the blessing of same-sex couples this September (triads next September), it is only natural that the diocesan hegemony has its mind set on thrusting. Here\u2019s the proof: Donate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/thrusting-in-the-diocese-of-niagara\/\">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-5526","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\/5526","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=5526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}