{"id":16631,"date":"2009-12-11T18:00:52","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T18:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/fourteen_minnesota_churches_leaving_elca_over_vote_to_aloow_clergy_in_same\/"},"modified":"2009-12-11T18:00:52","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T18:00:52","slug":"fourteen_minnesota_churches_leaving_elca_over_vote_to_aloow_clergy_in_same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16631","title":{"rendered":"Fourteen Minnesota churches leaving ELCA over vote to allow clergy in same-sex unions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than a dozen Lutheran congregations in Minnesota have vowed to leave the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) after a vote in Minneapolis this summer to allow gay and lesbian pastors in committed relationships to serve as clergy. The fifteen churches will join a new denomination called Lutheran CORE and leave the ELCA, the largest Lutheran denomination in the world.<\/p>\n<p>The leaders of Lutheran CORE say the ELCA has moved too far away from the Bible.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/minnesotaindependent.com\/50395\/fifteen-minnesota-churches-leaving-elca-over-gay-pastor-vote\" title=\"http:\/\/minnesotaindependent.com\/50395\/fifteen-minnesota-churches-leaving-elca-over-gay-pastor-vote\">One from the long list of I-have-not-yet-had-a-chance-to-post-yet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a dozen Lutheran congregations in Minnesota have vowed to leave the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) after a vote in Minneapolis this summer to allow gay and lesbian pastors in committed relationships to serve as clergy. The<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16631\">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":[42,363,154,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-news-commentary","category-lutheran","category-other-churches","category-sexuality-debate-other-denominations-and-faiths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16631","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=16631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}