{"id":2807,"date":"2007-11-04T17:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-04T17:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/central_florida_episcopalians_rebel_over_approval_of_new_practices\/"},"modified":"2007-11-04T17:46:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-04T17:46:00","slug":"central_florida_episcopalians_rebel_over_approval_of_new_practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=2807","title":{"rendered":"Central Florida Episcopalians rebel over approval of new practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The long-simmering dispute over homosexuality in the Episcopal Church, USA, which has threatened to tear the denomination apart, is now roiling the Diocese of Central Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Six traditionalist congregations here, together with two new congregations in the process of being established, are planning to leave the diocese and the denomination.<\/p>\n<p>They oppose ordaining openly gay clergy and blessing same-sex unions and were outraged at the 2003 consecration of openly gay Rev. V. Gene Robinson as bishop of New Hampshire.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe all of the efforts we have made to change the direction of the church have failed,&#8221; said the Rev. Donald J. Curran of Grace Episcopal Church in Ocala, one of the dissident congregations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/orl-episcopals0407nov04,0,557664,print.story?coll=orl-home-entlife\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The long-simmering dispute over homosexuality in the Episcopal Church, USA, which has threatened to tear the denomination apart, is now roiling the Diocese of Central Florida. Six traditionalist congregations here, together with two new congregations in the process of being<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=2807\">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":[36,66,514,79,376,657],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-conflicts-central-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807","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=2807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}