{"id":50696,"date":"2026-04-16T12:35:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/church-in-wales-approves-bill-on-blessings-of-same-sex-marriages\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T12:35:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:35:15","slug":"church-in-wales-approves-bill-on-blessings-of-same-sex-marriages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/church-in-wales-approves-bill-on-blessings-of-same-sex-marriages\/","title":{"rendered":"Church in Wales approves bill on blessings of same-sex marriages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 HooNV\">But other speakers opposed the bill, including Andy Grimwood, a deacon in St Asaph diocese, who said that friends in the Anglican community from other countries who &#8220;uphold the traditional position on sexuality&#8221; had been &#8220;pained to see what the Church in Wales is proposing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cx291ejr30xo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But other speakers opposed the bill, including Andy Grimwood, a deacon in St Asaph diocese, who said that friends in the Anglican community from other countries who &#8220;uphold the traditional position on sexuality&#8221; had been &#8220;pained to see what the Church in Wales is proposing&#8221;. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[11801,575,14646,4966,14648,14647,312],"class_list":["post-50696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wales","tag-approves","tag-bill","tag-blessings","tag-church","tag-marriages","tag-samesex","tag-wales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50698,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50696\/revisions\/50698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}