{"id":32317,"date":"2012-05-04T01:40:28","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T01:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/gcon-_2012_methodist_delegates_cannot_agree_that_they_disagree_on_sexuality\/"},"modified":"2012-05-04T01:40:28","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T01:40:28","slug":"gcon-_2012_methodist_delegates_cannot_agree_that_they_disagree_on_sexuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32317","title":{"rendered":"GCon. 2012 Methodist Delegates cannot agree that they disagree on sexuality issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Methodist Church cannot agree that it disagrees over the issue of homosexuality.<\/p>\n<p>After more than an hour of passionate debate and clear disagreement, two items stating Christians have different opinions about homosexuality were not approved by the 2012 General Conference, leaving the original language in the Book of Discipline intact.<\/p>\n<p>The Book of Discipline, Paragraph 161F states: \u201cThe United Methodist Church does not condone the practice of homosexuality and considers this practice incompatible with Christian teaching.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gc2012conversations.com\/2012\/05\/03\/delegates-fail-to-agree-that-they-disagree-on-sexuality-issue\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Methodist Church cannot agree that it disagrees over the issue of homosexuality. After more than an hour of passionate debate and clear disagreement, two items stating Christians have different opinions about homosexuality were not approved by the 2012<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32317\">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":[42,175,168,360,154,159,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-methodist","category-other-churches","category-sexuality-debate-other-denominations-and-faiths","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32317","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=32317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}