{"id":6897,"date":"2009-12-31T14:24:14","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T19:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=6897"},"modified":"2009-12-31T14:24:14","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T19:24:14","slug":"no-swearing-or-drinking-allowed-for-welsh-clergy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/no-swearing-or-drinking-allowed-for-welsh-clergy\/","title":{"rendered":"No swearing or drinking allowed for Welsh clergy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rev. Richard Grey, a Welsh vicar has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/news\/wales-news\/2009\/12\/31\/vicar-resigns-after-clergy-complaints-91466-25500103\/\" target=\"_blank\">booted out of his parish<\/a> for swearing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A VICAR who is a personal friend of the Archbishop of Canterbury will leave his church today following allegations about his behaviour made by fellow clergymen.<\/p>\n<p>A clergyman from a nearby parish who did not want to be identified told the Western Mail: \u201cI am one of a number of clerics who made formal complaints to the Bishop about Richard Grey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was very concerned at the language he used in a conversation he had with me. It is entirely inappropriate for a clergyman to use four-letter words.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And drinking!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThey have also accused him of having a drink problem, which is totally untrue. He\u2019s a member of the British Legion club and has a drink down there, and it seems some people think that\u2019s not right for a clergyman.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have no idea what Rev. Richard\u2019s theology is like but I wonder whether if instead of swearing and drinking, he had married a same-sex couple, he would find himself in this predicament.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously Rev. Richard is a bit rough around the edges (he <em>is <\/em>Welsh, after all); a bit like that carpenter who was crucified a couple of thousand years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rev. Richard Grey, a Welsh vicar has been booted out of his parish for swearing: A VICAR who is a personal friend of the Archbishop of Canterbury will leave his church today following allegations about his behaviour made by fellow &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/no-swearing-or-drinking-allowed-for-welsh-clergy\/\">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":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[2030],"class_list":["post-6897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican","tag-anglican"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6897","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=6897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}