{"id":3049,"date":"2019-03-22T10:00:06","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T10:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/lgbtstaff\/?p=3049"},"modified":"2020-01-30T20:35:17","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T20:35:17","slug":"official-statement-from-the-university-of-kents-lgbt-staff-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/lgbtstaff\/2019\/03\/22\/official-statement-from-the-university-of-kents-lgbt-staff-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Official statement from the University of Kent&#8217;s LGBT+ Staff Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">The University of Kent&#8217;s LGBT+ Staff Network is deeply concerned about the University&#8217;s hosting of the 2020 Lambeth Bishop&#8217;s Conference. The Archbishop of Canterbury has explicitly chosen to single out bishops&#8217; same sex spouses for exclusion. In a recent statement, the University has defended its decision to host the event despite this clear instance of institutional homophobia (<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 16px\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2019\/03\/18\/lambeth-conference-university-kent-defends-excluding-same-sex-spouses\/\">https:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2019\/03\/18\/lambeth-conference-university-kent-defends-excluding-same-sex-spouses\/<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">). The University&#8217;s stance, as quoted in the article, is unacceptable and needs to be challenged. As a Staff Network we believe that the University should prioritise its commitment to students and staff alike on issues of equality, diversity, and inclusivity. Specifically targeting same-sex spouses and excluding them from the Lambeth Conference is homophobic from the side of the church, and hosting the event on University premises facilitates this act of homophobia.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Kent&#8217;s LGBT+ Staff Network is deeply concerned about the University&#8217;s hosting of the 2020 Lambeth Bishop&#8217;s Conference. The Archbishop of Canterbury has explicitly chosen to single out bishops&#8217; same sex spouses for exclusion. In a recent statement, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/lgbtstaff\/2019\/03\/22\/official-statement-from-the-university-of-kents-lgbt-staff-network\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[86158],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/lgbtstaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/lgbtstaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/lgbtstaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/lgbtstaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/lgbtstaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/lgbtstaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3050,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/lgbtstaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049\/revisions\/3050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/lgbtstaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/lgbtstaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/lgbtstaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}