{"id":1325,"date":"2007-08-11T21:04:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-11T21:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ban_upheld_on_elca_clergys_non_celibate_same_sex_relationships\/"},"modified":"2007-08-11T21:04:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-11T21:04:00","slug":"ban_upheld_on_elca_clergys_non_celibate_same_sex_relationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=1325","title":{"rendered":"Ban upheld on ELCA clergy&#39;s non-celibate same sex relationships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voting members at an assembly of the nation&#8217;s largest Lutheran denomination on Friday rejected an effort by the Greater Milwaukee Synod and 20 other synods to end a ban on homosexual clergy who are in committed relationships.<\/p>\n<p>However, Bishop Craig Johnson of Minneapolis kept the possibility of change alive by introducing a resolution that would allow congregations, bishops, regional synodical councils and the national presiding bishop to jointly allow exceptions to the ban case by case.<\/p>\n<p>Other resolutions also could come to the floor when the Churchwide Assembly, the ELCA&#8217;s highest legislative authority, reconvenes today. With 4.8 million members, the ELCA is the nation&#8217;s largest Lutheran denomination.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/index.aspx?id=645481\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voting members at an assembly of the nation&#8217;s largest Lutheran denomination on Friday rejected an effort by the Greater Milwaukee Synod and 20 other synods to end a ban on homosexual clergy who are in committed relationships. However, Bishop Craig<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=1325\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-news-commentary","category-lutheran","category-other-churches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325","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=1325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}