{"id":198,"date":"2005-11-17T17:50:15","date_gmt":"2005-11-17T22:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattclare.ca\/wordpress\/?p=198"},"modified":"2005-12-07T09:39:53","modified_gmt":"2005-12-07T14:39:53","slug":"anglicans-and-fruits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/2005\/11\/17\/anglicans-and-fruits\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglicans and Fruits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/frontpage\/story\/0,16518,1644269,00.html\">The broader Anglican church is upset over the recent appointment of a gay bishop in the US and the marring of gays by a minister in BC.<\/a>  Also the UK may soon join the gay marriage club and the church is exploring what that will do to their spousal benefits, etc.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury by almost half the world&#8217;s presiding archbishops suggested that the church &#8220;cut away dead branches that had failed to bear fruit&#8221;.  A veiled reference to the BC and American dioceses.<\/p>\n<p>Is it just me or are these the only two dioceses that are bearing fruits?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The broader Anglican church is upset over the recent appointment of a gay bishop in the US and the marring of gays by a minister in BC. Also the UK may soon join the gay marriage club and the church is exploring what that will do to their spousal benefits, etc. In a letter to&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/2005\/11\/17\/anglicans-and-fruits\/\">Continue Reading<span> Anglicans and Fruits<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,7,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}