{"id":26991,"date":"2011-06-29T16:35:02","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T16:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/change_in_church_policy_allows_clu_professors_in_same_sex_partnerships_to_b\/"},"modified":"2011-06-29T16:35:02","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T16:35:02","slug":"change_in_church_policy_allows_clu_professors_in_same_sex_partnerships_to_b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26991","title":{"rendered":"Change in church policy Allows CLU Professors in Same Sex partnerships to be ordained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years, Guy Erwin worked toward becoming a Lutheran minister, knowing the whole time his church wouldn&#8217;t ordain him because he is gay.<\/p>\n<p>Now Erwin, 53, is one of two California Lutheran University professors who were ordained recently because the Lutheran and Episcopal churches changed their policies on ordaining [non-celibate] gay and lesbian clergy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had thought, &#8216;Maybe it&#8217;s too late for me,'&#8221; said Erwin, who was ordained at CLU in May. &#8220;But my friends said, &#8216;The church has been calling you all these years.&#8217; It has ended up being a point of great joy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vcstar.com\/news\/2011\/jun\/26\/change-in-church-policy-allows-gays-in-ministry\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, Guy Erwin worked toward becoming a Lutheran minister, knowing the whole time his church wouldn&#8217;t ordain him because he is gay. Now Erwin, 53, is one of two California Lutheran University professors who were ordained recently because the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26991\">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":[36,48,42,66,363,435,154,184,514,79,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-religion-news-commentary","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-lutheran","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-sexuality-debate-other-denominations-and-faiths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26991","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=26991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}