{"id":1485,"date":"2007-08-21T14:55:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T14:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/connecticut_parish_accused_of_a_trespass\/"},"modified":"2007-08-21T14:55:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-21T14:55:00","slug":"connecticut_parish_accused_of_a_trespass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=1485","title":{"rendered":"Connecticut Parish Accused Of A Trespass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Donald] Helmandollar said the parish plans to rebut the lawsuit&#8217;s assertions. The lawsuit was no surprise, he said, but the idea that church leaders would use a lawsuit to resolve the issue still struck an emotional chord.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It just feels kind of strange to be sued personally, for myself and my vestry members, by your church, or what used to be your church,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It just doesn&#8217;t sit well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit follows months of skirmishes between the parish and the diocese, part of a wider dispute unfolding within the Episcopal Church nationwide related to the 2003 election of an openly gay man as bishop of New Hampshire and the church&#8217;s blessing of same-sex unions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.courant.com\/news\/custom\/topnews\/hc-trinity0821.artaug21,0,3178210.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Donald] Helmandollar said the parish plans to rebut the lawsuit&#8217;s assertions. The lawsuit was no surprise, he said, but the idea that church leaders would use a lawsuit to resolve the issue still struck an emotional chord. &#8220;It just feels<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=1485\">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":[36,66,376,649],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-conflicts-connecticut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485","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=1485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}