{"id":26106,"date":"2011-05-10T17:30:31","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T17:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/peter_smith_on_the_presbyterian_clergy_in_same_sex_unions_decision\/"},"modified":"2011-05-10T17:30:31","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T17:30:31","slug":"peter_smith_on_the_presbyterian_clergy_in_same_sex_unions_decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26106","title":{"rendered":"More from Peter Smith on the Presbyterian Clergy-in-Same-Sex-Unions decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe voting results surprised me,\u201d\u009d [Jack] Marcum, of the denomination\u2019s Research Services.  \u201cAfter more than three decades of disagreements over homosexuality and ordination, I hadn\u2019t seen any trends suggesting that 2011 would be the decisive year.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The denomination\u2019s researchers have been tracking opinion on the subject for decades. While they\u2019ve phrased the question differently over time, the trend line is clear: From the 1970s through 2001, a majority of pastors, elders and members opposed gay ordination, according to Marcum.<\/p>\n<p>But the margins narrowed over time, particularly among pastors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.courier-journal.com\/faith\/2011\/05\/10\/rapid-change-on-gays\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe voting results surprised me,\u201d\u009d [Jack] Marcum, of the denomination\u2019s Research Services. \u201cAfter more than three decades of disagreements over homosexuality and ordination, I hadn\u2019t seen any trends suggesting that 2011 would be the decisive year.\u201d\u009d The denomination\u2019s researchers have<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26106\">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":[42,154,417,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-news-commentary","category-other-churches","category-presbyterian","category-sexuality-debate-other-denominations-and-faiths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26106","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=26106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}