{"id":19866,"date":"2010-05-21T15:27:26","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T15:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/in_ohio_windsor_methodist_church_denomination_settle_lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2010-05-21T15:27:26","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T15:27:26","slug":"in_ohio_windsor_methodist_church_denomination_settle_lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19866","title":{"rendered":"In Ohio, Windsor methodist church, denomination settle lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A years-long disagreement between a local church and the denomination it was a part of for more than a century has been settled.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Capper, attorney for the Windsor United Methodist Church, said Tuesday that congregation and the West Ohio Conference of the United Methodist Church should finalize with a week or two an agreement that will allow the local church to remain open but not be a part of the Methodist fold and pay only $100 in damages.<\/p>\n<p>Windsor Methodist treasurer Diane Duncan said the disagreement began several years ago when the trustees at Windsor voted to leave the Methodist conference because the local congregation objected to what it considered a more liberal turn in church doctrine, namely the ordination of [non-celibate] homosexuals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irontontribune.com\/news\/2010\/may\/19\/windsor-church-denomination-settle-lawsuit\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A years-long disagreement between a local church and the denomination it was a part of for more than a century has been settled. Donald Capper, attorney for the Windsor United Methodist Church, said Tuesday that congregation and the West Ohio<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19866\">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":[39,42,114,360,154,108,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-law-legal-issues","category-methodist","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality-debate-other-denominations-and-faiths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19866","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=19866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}