{"id":7465,"date":"2010-02-13T17:58:38","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T22:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=7465"},"modified":"2010-02-13T17:58:38","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T22:58:38","slug":"openly-gay-episcopal-priest-receives-more-nods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/openly-gay-episcopal-priest-receives-more-nods\/","title":{"rendered":"Openly Gay Episcopal Priest Receives More Nods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/article\/20100213\/openly-gay-priest-receives-nods\/\" target=\"_blank\">Christian Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A controversial priest who has a lesbian partner has so far received more than half the votes she needs to be consecrated as an assistant bishop.<\/p>\n<p>And the 120-day consent process began just a month ago.<\/p>\n<p>The Rev. Canon Mary Douglas Glasspool has 29 consents to become bishop suffragan, according to a recent report by the Diocese of Los Angeles. She needs 56 to be confirmed as the second openly homosexual bishop in The Episcopal Church.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Throughout her 30 years of ordained ministry, the Rev. Mary Glasspool has been faithful and consistent to the ministry, doctrine and teaching of the Episcopal Church,&#8221; Bishop Nathan Baxter of the Episcopal Diocese of Central Pennsylvania wrote in a pastoral letter indicating his consent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On the matter of her sexuality and life-style, the Rev. Glasspool is faithful to the spirit and prayerfully determined direction of our church,&#8221; he noted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And there you have it: <em>\u201cRev. Glasspool is faithful to the spirit and prayerfully determined direction of our church\u201d. <\/em>TEC has abandoned Biblical directives and, instead, has decided to go its own way, faithful to a spirit that is entirely unrelated to the Spirit and prayer that is entirely solipsistic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Christian Post: A controversial priest who has a lesbian partner has so far received more than half the votes she needs to be consecrated as an assistant bishop. And the 120-day consent process began just a month ago. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/openly-gay-episcopal-priest-receives-more-nods\/\">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":[302],"tags":[2262],"class_list":["post-7465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tec","tag-tec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7465","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=7465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}