The Independent<\/em> on the subject is worth reading to the very end, where a much more historically well-informed Christian perspective is offered<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It seems like it should be an article from The Onion. But it isn\u2019t. A spokesperson for the Church of England apparently really has said that the legalization of same-sex marriage in the U.K. is the biggest threat the church has faced in its 500-year history. The irony is unmissable \u2013 except apparently if you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,42,61,75],"tags":[394,624,1846,1883,2752,3110,3794,4113,4541,4743,5388,6493,6521,7036,9830,10169,10726],"class_list":["post-8047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buddhism","category-humor","category-morality","category-politics","tag-adultery","tag-anglican","tag-christianity-religion","tag-church-of-england","tag-divorce","tag-equality","tag-gay","tag-government","tag-henry-viii","tag-homosexual","tag-irony","tag-lesbian","tag-lgbt","tag-marriage","tag-queer","tag-religion","tag-same-sex"],"yoast_head":"\n
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It seems like it should be an article from The Onion<\/em>. But it isn\u2019t<\/a>. A spokesperson for the Church of England<\/a> apparently really has said that the legalization of same-sex marriage in the U.K. is the biggest threat the church has faced in its 500-year history.<\/p>\n