{"id":12082,"date":"2009-04-04T14:30:57","date_gmt":"2009-04-04T14:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ucc_leaders_hail_iowa_court_decision_legalizing_same_sex_marriage\/"},"modified":"2009-04-04T14:30:57","modified_gmt":"2009-04-04T14:30:57","slug":"ucc_leaders_hail_iowa_court_decision_legalizing_same_sex_marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12082","title":{"rendered":"UCC leaders hail Iowa court decision legalizing Same Sex marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>United Church of Christ leaders are hailing a unanimous decision by the Iowa Supreme Court to reject the state&#8217;s ban on same-gender marriage as unconstitutional. Iowa now joins Massachusetts and Connecticut in becoming the third state to allow same-sex couples to marry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMassachusetts, Connecticut and Iowa are three states whose cultures were shaped profoundly by the Congregational experience,\u201d\u009d said the Rev. John H. Thomas, UCC general minister and president. \u201cI can&#8217;t help but believe and affirm that there is a connection at work here.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The United Church of Christ has 179 local churches in Iowa, and Grinnell College &#8211; one of state&#8217;s most prominent liberal arts schools &#8211; is historically related to the denomination.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucc.org\/news\/ucc-leaders-hail-iowa-court.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Church of Christ leaders are hailing a unanimous decision by the Iowa Supreme Court to reject the state&#8217;s ban on same-gender marriage as unconstitutional. Iowa now joins Massachusetts and Connecticut in becoming the third state to allow same-sex couples<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12082\">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":[39,42,576,114,98,154,108,112,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","category-united-church-of-christ"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12082","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=12082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}