{"id":12556,"date":"2012-09-25T12:52:35","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T01:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=12556"},"modified":"2012-09-25T12:52:35","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T01:52:35","slug":"decision-time-for-the-same-sex-marriage-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2012\/09\/25\/decision-time-for-the-same-sex-marriage-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Decision Time for the Same-Sex Marriage Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Guest blogger, Richard Humphrey, the Dean of Hobart, writes:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>During this week the Legislative Council will be debating legislation that, if it is passed, will implement a form of Same-Sex Marriage in Tasmania. \u00a0Bishop John has been very clear in his opposition to this bill. \u00a0He has posted the Anglican Church&#8217;s <a title=\"Anglican Church of Tasmania\u2019s Position Statement: Same-Sex Marriage Bill\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2012\/09\/20\/anglican-church-of-tasmanias-position-statement-same-sex-marriage-bill\/\">Position Statement<\/a> in a previous blog article which outlines how the proposed legislation is bad law for all concerned.<\/p>\n<p>We are encouraging people to continue to communicate with their Legislative Councillors, even at this late hour. \u00a0<strong>An important official petition is still open and can be signed by any Tasmanian citizen<\/strong>. Please consider signing it online here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.tas.gov.au\/EPetitions\/Council\/CurrentEPetition.aspx?PetNum=9&amp;lIndex=-1\">http:\/\/www.parliament.tas.gov.au\/EPetitions\/Council\/CurrentEPetition.aspx?PetNum=9&amp;lIndex=-1<\/a>\u00a0Currently the numbers of an opposing petition are slightly ahead. \u00a0Please encourage those you know to sign as well.<\/p>\n<p>St. David&#8217;s Cathedral hosted an encouraging number of people on Monday as we prayed and fasted for the events of this week. \u00a0At the end of the day The Hon. Kevin Andrews spoke on <em>Marriage and the Libertarian Revolution<\/em>. \u00a0The <a href=\"http:\/\/stdavidscathedralhobart.org\/assets\/Marriage_and_The_Libertarian_Revolut.mp3\">audio <\/a>is now available on the <a href=\"http:\/\/stdavidscathedralhobart.org\/news\/\">cathedral website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest blogger, Richard Humphrey, the Dean of Hobart, writes: During this week the Legislative Council will be debating legislation that, if it is passed, will implement a form of Same-Sex Marriage in Tasmania. \u00a0Bishop John has been very clear in &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2012\/09\/25\/decision-time-for-the-same-sex-marriage-bill\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12556"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12557,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12556\/revisions\/12557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}