{"id":24850,"date":"2011-03-02T17:40:26","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T17:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_presbyterian_church_deadlocks_over_a_minister_who_legally_married_anoth\/"},"modified":"2011-03-02T17:40:26","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T17:40:26","slug":"the_presbyterian_church_deadlocks_over_a_minister_who_legally_married_anoth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24850","title":{"rendered":"(Star-Tribune) The Presbyterian Church deadlocks over a minister who legally married another man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[The Rev. Erwin Barron, a college professor in San Francisco whose church credentials remain with the Presbytery of the Twin Cities [Minnesota] Area, faced a 2 1\/2-hour trial before a presbytery panel of six at Oak Grove Presbyterian Church in Bloomington. After almost three hours of closed deliberations, the panel split 3-3. A two-thirds vote was required for conviction, which lawyers said could have led to defrockment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m relieved,&#8221; Barron said. &#8220;I wish it was more definitive. &#8230; The decision is not clear for the church.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/lifestyle\/faith\/117119988.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[The Rev. Erwin Barron, a college professor in San Francisco whose church credentials remain with the Presbytery of the Twin Cities [Minnesota] Area, faced a 2 1\/2-hour trial before a presbytery panel of six at Oak Grove Presbyterian Church in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24850\">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":[48,39,42,576,168,114,98,435,154,184,177,417,108,112,159,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-presbyterian","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","category-sexuality-debate-other-denominations-and-faiths","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24850","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=24850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}