{"id":6466,"date":"2009-11-30T09:43:32","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T14:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=6466"},"modified":"2009-11-30T09:43:32","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T14:43:32","slug":"diocese-of-ottawa-please-get-married-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/diocese-of-ottawa-please-get-married-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Diocese of Ottawa: please get married here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Diocese of Ottawa is \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanjournal.com\/issues\/2009\/135\/dec\/10\/article\/diocese-tests-same-gender-blessing-at-one-church\/?cHash=e8db12a861\" target=\"_blank\">testing<\/a>\u201d same sex blessings:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bishop John Chapman has given a church in the diocese of Ottawa permission to begin offering a rite of blessing to same-gender couples who are civilly married.<\/p>\n<p>The Church of St. John the Evangelist could offer its first blessing as soon as a married couple asks. At least one person in the couple needs to be baptized.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bishop John Chapman is now scouring Canada trying to find a homosexual couple who want to get their marriage blessed in his church. I understand that he did find one couple but lost them to Bishop Michael Bird after a brief scuffle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Diocese of Ottawa is \u201ctesting\u201d same sex blessings: Bishop John Chapman has given a church in the diocese of Ottawa permission to begin offering a rite of blessing to same-gender couples who are civilly married. The Church of St. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/diocese-of-ottawa-please-get-married-here\/\">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":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16,177],"tags":[2031,2032,2167],"class_list":["post-6466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-angst","category-anglican-church-of-canada","category-homosexuality","tag-anglican-angst","tag-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-homosexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6466","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=6466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}