{"id":13025,"date":"2009-05-27T02:40:34","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T02:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_of_scotland_orders_ban_on_debate_on_ministers_in_same_sex_partnershi\/"},"modified":"2009-05-27T02:40:34","modified_gmt":"2009-05-27T02:40:34","slug":"church_of_scotland_orders_ban_on_debate_on_ministers_in_same_sex_partnershi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13025","title":{"rendered":"Church of Scotland orders ban on debate on ministers in same sex partnerships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of Scotland last night effectively gagged its members from public discussion of gay ministers and postponed a potentially divisive vote on the issue for two years in a desperate bid to avoid a schism.<\/p>\n<p>A debate on a call to ban openly homosexual people from appointment to the ministry was torpedoed by an 11th-hour motion that dominated the General Assembly yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of proceeding with the vote \u201d\u201c which many traditionalists had warned could split the Kirk \u201d\u201c members agreed to establish a commission to study the issue and report back in 2011.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thescotsman.scotsman.com\/scotland\/Kirk-orders-ban-on-gay.5300732.jp\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of Scotland last night effectively gagged its members from public discussion of gay ministers and postponed a potentially divisive vote on the issue for two years in a desperate bid to avoid a schism. A debate on a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13025\">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":[50,42,199,154,417,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-england-uk","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\/13025","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=13025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}