{"id":16008,"date":"2009-11-09T17:15:32","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T17:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/in_pittsburgh_clerics_united_in_opposition_to_death_penalty\/"},"modified":"2009-11-09T17:15:32","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T17:15:32","slug":"in_pittsburgh_clerics_united_in_opposition_to_death_penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16008","title":{"rendered":"In Pittsburgh Clerics united in opposition to death penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It could be the start of a groan-worthy joke.<\/p>\n<p>A Catholic priest, a rabbi, an Episcopal rector, a Methodist minister and a Lutheran pastor sit down for some interfaith dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>But yesterday at the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary in East Liberty, there was no joking about the discussion topic, the death penalty.<\/p>\n<p>The Judeo-Christian religions have come a long way from the Old Testament notion of an eye for an eye, the panelists said. Representatives of the five religions said their churches have officially come out strongly against America&#8217;s use of the death penalty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/pg\/09313\/1011924-455.stm#ixzz0WMmsAGGj\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It could be the start of a groan-worthy joke. A Catholic priest, a rabbi, an Episcopal rector, a Methodist minister and a Lutheran pastor sit down for some interfaith dialogue. But yesterday at the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary in East Liberty,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16008\">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":[39,118,114,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-capital-punishment","category-law-legal-issues","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16008","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=16008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}