{"id":11624,"date":"2009-03-09T23:00:52","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T23:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/lutheran_panel_proposes_road_map_to_permit_partnered_gay_clergy\/"},"modified":"2009-03-09T23:00:52","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T23:00:52","slug":"lutheran_panel_proposes_road_map_to_permit_partnered_gay_clergy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11624","title":{"rendered":"Lutheran panel proposes road map to permit partnered gay clergy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A blue-ribbon panel has recommended that the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America lift its ban on partnered gay and lesbian clergy, but only after the church agrees in principle on gay relationships and agrees to respect the consciences of those who dissent.<\/p>\n<p>A majority of the 15-member Task Force for ELCA Studies on Sexuality believes that &#8220;it is possible to devise guidelines and policies that would allow . . . some flexibility&#8221; in its ordination standards.<\/p>\n<p>The 4.7-million-member ELCA currently allows gay or lesbian clergy who pledge to be celibate; partnered or sexually active homosexual clergy are technically not allowed in ELCA pulpits, though some buck the rules without punishment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiancentury.org\/article.lasso?id=6539\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A blue-ribbon panel has recommended that the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America lift its ban on partnered gay and lesbian clergy, but only after the church agrees in principle on gay relationships and agrees to respect the consciences of those<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11624\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,363,154,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-news-commentary","category-lutheran","category-other-churches","category-sexuality-debate-other-denominations-and-faiths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}