{"id":1302,"date":"2005-12-29T00:31:28","date_gmt":"2005-12-29T04:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/?p=1302"},"modified":"2005-12-29T00:50:53","modified_gmt":"2005-12-29T04:50:53","slug":"russian-orthodox-church-suspends-relations-with-swedish-lutherans-over-gay-marriages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2005\/12\/russian-orthodox-church-suspends-relations-with-swedish-lutherans-over-gay-marriages\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Orthodox Church Suspends Relations With Swedish Lutherans Over Gay Marriages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MosNews<\/p>\n<p>The Moscow Patriarchate has suspended relations with the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Sweden after it decided to establish an official ceremony to bless homosexual couples, the Interfax news agency reported on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have received with great disappointment and grief the news that not only does the Lutheran Church of Sweden not oppose so-called homosexual marriages, but has even ruled to establish an official blessing ceremony,\u201d the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church said in a statement at a session in Moscow.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mosnews.com\/news\/2005\/12\/27\/churchgayban.shtml\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MosNews The Moscow Patriarchate has suspended relations with the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Sweden after it decided to establish an official ceremony to bless homosexual couples, the Interfax news agency reported on Tuesday. \u201cWe have received with great disappointment and grief the news that not only does the Lutheran Church of Sweden not oppose so-called homosexual &#8230; <a title=\"Russian Orthodox Church Suspends Relations With Swedish Lutherans Over Gay Marriages\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2005\/12\/russian-orthodox-church-suspends-relations-with-swedish-lutherans-over-gay-marriages\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Russian Orthodox Church Suspends Relations With Swedish Lutherans Over Gay Marriages\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moral-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}