{"id":23525,"date":"2010-12-20T00:01:14","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T00:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/breaking_with_denomination_foundry_united_methodist_church_votes_to_perform\/"},"modified":"2010-12-20T00:01:14","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T00:01:14","slug":"breaking_with_denomination_foundry_united_methodist_church_votes_to_perform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23525","title":{"rendered":"Breaking with denomination, Foundry United Methodist Church votes to perform same-sex marriages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of Foundry United Methodist Church in Washington D.C. voted 367 to 8 on Sept. 26 to allow same-gender marriages to be performed in its building. Foundry is among many congregations in Washington that have been discussing same-sex marriages since the city passed the Marriage Equality Act last March.<\/p>\n<p>The Book of Discipline, the denomination\u2019s rulebook, says it is a chargeable offense for a clergyperson to conduct a holy union or marriage for gays and lesbians.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/goodnewsmag.org\/2010\/11\/16\/breaking-with-denomination-foundry-um-church-votes-to-perform-same-sex-marriages\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of Foundry United Methodist Church in Washington D.C. voted 367 to 8 on Sept. 26 to allow same-gender marriages to be performed in its building. Foundry is among many congregations in Washington that have been discussing same-sex marriages since<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23525\">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":[42,360,154,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-news-commentary","category-methodist","category-other-churches","category-sexuality-debate-other-denominations-and-faiths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23525","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=23525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}