{"id":31011,"date":"2012-02-22T18:44:34","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T18:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/la_times_presbyterians_censure_retired_pastor_for_marrying_same-sex_couples\/"},"modified":"2012-02-22T18:44:34","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T18:44:34","slug":"la_times_presbyterians_censure_retired_pastor_for_marrying_same-sex_couples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31011","title":{"rendered":"(LA Times) Presbyterians censure retired pastor for marrying same-sex couples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A retired Presbyterian pastor who spent her career ministering to gay men and lesbians has been censured by her denomination for marrying same-sex couples during the brief time such unions were legal in California.<\/p>\n<p>The Rev. Jane Adams Spahr lost her final appeal before the highest court in the Presbyterian Church (USA), which released its opinion Tuesday. The tribunal ruled that the 69-year-old lesbian had violated the church&#8217;s constitution and her ordination vows when she officiated at the unions of 16 couples and called them marriages.<\/p>\n<p>A lower court&#8217;s rebuke of Spahr was upheld, along with the warning that pastors should not represent the marriage of gay or lesbian couples as Presbyterian marriages&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-presbyterian-gay-marriage-20120222,0,3042357.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A retired Presbyterian pastor who spent her career ministering to gay men and lesbians has been censured by her denomination for marrying same-sex couples during the brief time such unions were legal in California. The Rev. Jane Adams Spahr lost<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31011\">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":[48,39,42,576,175,168,114,183,98,435,154,184,177,417,108,112,159,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31011","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-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-liturgy-music-worship","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\/31011","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=31011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}