{"id":26120,"date":"2011-05-11T16:25:19","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T16:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/presbyterians_clear_way_for_ordaining_non-celibate_gays_lesbians\/"},"modified":"2011-05-11T16:25:19","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T16:25:19","slug":"presbyterians_clear_way_for_ordaining_non-celibate_gays_lesbians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26120","title":{"rendered":"Peter Smith&#8211;Presbyterians clear way for ordaining non-celibate gays, lesbians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The denomination &#8220;has talked about, prayed about, worked, discussed, discerned for 35 years,&#8221; &#8230;[the Rev. Ann Deibert] said. &#8220;It feels like an enormous gift and a breath of the Spirit. What it means is we are recognizing the gifts and graces of God in more and more people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But the Presbyterians for Renewal, a Louisville-based coalition of evangelical churches, lamented &#8220;this unfaithful action&#8221; in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In a lot of presbyteries, evangelical folks didn&#8217;t show up in enough numbers that it swung some votes,&#8221; added its executive director, the Rev. Paul Detterman. &#8220;How opposing sides can work together without compromising their core identities under the same denominational canopy is the question of the day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/2011-05-11-prebyterians-gay_n.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The denomination &#8220;has talked about, prayed about, worked, discussed, discerned for 35 years,&#8221; &#8230;[the Rev. Ann Deibert] said. &#8220;It feels like an enormous gift and a breath of the Spirit. What it means is we are recognizing the gifts and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26120\">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":[48,42,435,154,184,417,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-religion-news-commentary","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-presbyterian","category-sexuality-debate-other-denominations-and-faiths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26120","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=26120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}