{"id":17640,"date":"2010-02-01T02:22:51","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T02:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/in_kansas_episcopal_bishops_and_othe_church_leaders_support_death_penalty_r\/"},"modified":"2010-02-01T02:22:51","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T02:22:51","slug":"in_kansas_episcopal_bishops_and_othe_church_leaders_support_death_penalty_r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17640","title":{"rendered":"In Kansas Episcopal Bishops and other Church leaders support death penalty repeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A measure being considered by the Kansas Senate Judiciary Committee to repeal the state\u2019s death penalty picked up eight supporters on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to the Kansas Legislature, eight bishops of the Episcopal Church, Roman Catholic Church, Evangelical Lutheran Church and United Methodist Church in Kansas signed a letter asking for reconsideration and repeal of the Kansas death penalty.<\/p>\n<p>Signing the letter, dated Jan. 28, were Bishops James M. Adams Jr., Episcopal Diocese of Western Kansas; Paul S. Coakley, Catholic Diocese of Salina; Ronald M. Gilmore, Catholic Diocese of Dodge City; Michael O. Jackels, Catholic Diocese of Wichita; Scott J. Jones, Kansas Area United Methodist Church; Gerald L. Mansholt, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America; Joseph F. Naumann, Catholic Archdiocese of Kansas City; and Dean Wolfe, Episcopal Diocese of Kansas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.morningsun.net\/news\/x1090830274\/Bishops-support-death-penalty-repeal\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A measure being considered by the Kansas Senate Judiciary Committee to repeal the state\u2019s death penalty picked up eight supporters on Friday. In a letter to the Kansas Legislature, eight bishops of the Episcopal Church, Roman Catholic Church, Evangelical Lutheran<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17640\">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":[36,39,40,42,118,66,114,154,151,108,619,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-capital-punishment","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-law-legal-issues","category-other-churches","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-state-government","category-tec-bishops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17640","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=17640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}