{"id":28531,"date":"2012-07-11T19:01:40","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T01:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/11\/proud-to-be-an-episcopalian.html"},"modified":"2012-07-11T19:01:40","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T01:01:40","slug":"proud-to-be-an-episcopalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/11\/proud-to-be-an-episcopalian.html","title":{"rendered":"Proud to be an Episcopalian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While it&#39;s not formally [whisper] <i>marriage<\/i> [\/whisper] by name, it&#39;s something very important. \u00a0And it&#39;s certainly not a matter on which the church has &quot;turned on a dime&quot; but has given quite a bit of time in consideration and discernment (and plenty for those who simply cannot stand it to depart, as many have).<\/p>\n<p>Well done, those at General Convention. I wish I could have been there.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/usnews.msnbc.msn.com\/_news\/2012\/07\/10\/12666645-episcopal-church-becomes-biggest-us-church-to-bless-gay-unions'>Episcopal Church becomes biggest US church to bless gay unions<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe U.S. Episcopal Church became the biggest church in the United States to approve a provisional rite for blessing gay unions after its House of Deputies gave its final approval Tuesday.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/cAKC1ami6Cg' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While it&#39;s not formally [whisper] marriage [\/whisper] by name, it&#39;s something very important. \u00a0And it&#39;s certainly not a matter on which the church has &quot;turned on a dime&quot; but has given quite a bit of time in consideration and discernment (and plenty for those who simply cannot stand it to depart, as many have). Well &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/11\/proud-to-be-an-episcopalian.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Proud to be an Episcopalian&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5850,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/10\/just_in_case_yo.html","url_meta":{"origin":28531,"position":0},"title":"Just in case you thought the foofoorah had died down some &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 10-Jul-04 8:40am","format":false,"excerpt":"More contentiousy goodness over the Episcopal Church, gay unions, and my parish. 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