{"id":12069,"date":"2009-04-03T17:46:22","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T17:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/christian_science_monitor_on_divisive_issue_of_clergy_in_same_sex_two_churc\/"},"modified":"2009-04-03T17:46:22","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T17:46:22","slug":"christian_science_monitor_on_divisive_issue_of_clergy_in_same_sex_two_churc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12069","title":{"rendered":"Christian Science Monitor: On divisive issue of clergy in same sex, two churches weigh softer stance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two mainline Protestant denominations, after decades of wrestling over the place of homosexuality in the church, are considering allowing local congregations to select pastors who are in long-term, monogamous, same-gender relationships.<\/p>\n<p>The church council of the largest Lutheran body in the US, the 5-million-member Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA), decided this week to send such a recommendation to its national assembly. The proposal would take effect if supported by majority vote at the assembly&#8217;s biennial meeting in August.<\/p>\n<p>The 2.3-million-member Presbyterian Church (USA) approved the idea at its national assembly last summer, but a majority of the church&#8217;s 173 district bodies, called presbyteries, must vote in favor by June for it to become church policy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2009\/0331\/p02s04-ussc.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two mainline Protestant denominations, after decades of wrestling over the place of homosexuality in the church, are considering allowing local congregations to select pastors who are in long-term, monogamous, same-gender relationships. The church council of the largest Lutheran body in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12069\">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":[42,363,154,417,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-news-commentary","category-lutheran","category-other-churches","category-presbyterian","category-sexuality-debate-other-denominations-and-faiths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12069","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=12069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}