{"id":109,"date":"2020-01-30T14:21:23","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T14:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/?p=109"},"modified":"2020-01-30T14:21:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T14:21:23","slug":"urc-youth-assembly-unanimously-condemns-cte-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/?p=109","title":{"rendered":"URC Youth Assembly unanimously condemns CTE decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong style=\"font-size: 13.65px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/urc.org.uk\/images\/News\/News_images\/Youth-Assembly-voting_banner_2.jpg\" alt=\"Youth Assembly voting banner 2\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" style=\"margin-left: 10px;margin-bottom: 10px;float: right\" \/>The United Reformed Church\u2019s Youth Assembly has strongly spoken out against the Churches Together in England (CTE)\u2019s decision to sideline Hannah Brock Womack due to her same-sex marriage.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a body of young people, URC Youth Assembly 2020 feels outraged and underrepresented by the CTE on this matter,\u201d they said, calling for \u201ca more just outcome\u201d. The statement was unanimously supported and passed by consensus.<\/p>\n<p>The 2020 Youth Assembly offered to contribute towards \u201cnecessary reconciling conversations\u201d with CTE, echoing and commending <a href=\"https:\/\/urc.org.uk\/latest-news\/3282-urc-s-response-to-cte-statement-about-its-fourth-presidency.html\">the URC\u2019s statement on this matter<\/a> and recognising that the URC includes a variety of positions. The Youth Assembly\u2019s statement was approved on the second day of its weekend meeting, on 25 January. URC Youth plan to send the resolution to the CTE and to the youth organisations of other Church denominations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feed-readmore\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/urc.org.uk\/latest-news\/3331-urc-youth-assembly-unanimously-condemns-cte-decision.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Reformed Church\u2019s Youth Assembly has strongly spoken out against the Churches Together in England (CTE)\u2019s decision to sideline Hannah Brock Womack due to her same-sex marriage. \u201cAs a body of young people, URC Youth Assembly 2020 feels outraged and underrepresented by the CTE on this matter,\u201d they said, calling for \u201ca more just&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/?p=109\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110,"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,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-urc-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/109\/urc-youth-assembly-unanimously-condemns-cte-decision.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}