{"id":5846,"date":"2016-07-23T10:42:43","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T09:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/?p=5846"},"modified":"2016-08-20T19:58:03","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T18:58:03","slug":"the-urc-empowers-its-local-churches-to-conduct-marriages-of-same-sex-couples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/the-urc-empowers-its-local-churches-to-conduct-marriages-of-same-sex-couples\/","title":{"rendered":"The URC empowers its local churches to conduct marriages of same-sex couples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Rings.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5847 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Rings-150x147.jpg\" alt=\"Rings\" width=\"150\" height=\"147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Rings-150x147.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Rings-300x293.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Rings.jpg 321w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The General Assembly of the United Reformed Church (URC) on 9 July voted in favour of allowing its local churches to conduct and register marriages for same-sex couples. This means that the URC is now the largest UK denomination to freely permit the celebration and registration of marriages of same-sex couple in its churches.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Assembly voted in favour of the resolution by 240 votes to 21 votes. United Reformed churches in England and Wales wishing to register their buildings for the marriage of same-sex couples are now able to start that process immediately.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2aCha4k\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The General Assembly of the United Reformed Church (URC) on 9 July voted in favour of allowing its local churches to conduct and register marriages for same-sex couples. This means that the URC is now the largest UK denomination to freely permit the celebration and registration of marriages of same-sex couple in its churches. Assembly &hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/the-urc-empowers-its-local-churches-to-conduct-marriages-of-same-sex-couples\/\" class=\"button more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The URC empowers its local churches to conduct marriages of same-sex couples&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5848,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5846\/revisions\/5848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}