{"id":14219,"date":"2009-08-01T20:00:39","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T20:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/kevin_johnson_gay_clergy_making_small_strides_in_u-s\/"},"modified":"2009-08-01T20:00:39","modified_gmt":"2009-08-01T20:00:39","slug":"kevin_johnson_gay_clergy_making_small_strides_in_u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=14219","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Johnson: Gay clergy making small strides in U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Word came recently that the Episcopal Church national convention plans to affirm gay and lesbian clergy. Some celebrated, while others recoiled. The public pondered.<\/p>\n<p>From the sidelines I say, \u201cHooray for the steady progress of God&#8217;s holy spirit.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mydesert.com\/article\/20090801\/COLUMNS49\/907310333\/1026\/news12\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Word came recently that the Episcopal Church national convention plans to affirm gay and lesbian clergy. Some celebrated, while others recoiled. The public pondered. From the sidelines I say, \u201cHooray for the steady progress of God&#8217;s holy spirit.\u201d\u009d Read it<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=14219\">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":[36,39,42,576,422,66,378,363,98,360,154,417,112,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-baptists","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-general-convention","category-lutheran","category-marriage-family","category-methodist","category-other-churches","category-presbyterian","category-sexuality","category-sexuality-debate-other-denominations-and-faiths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14219","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=14219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}