{"id":32388,"date":"2012-05-08T02:38:16","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T02:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_why_the_united_methodist_church_canceled_votes_on_same-sex_marriage_and\/"},"modified":"2012-05-08T02:38:16","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T02:38:16","slug":"rns_why_the_united_methodist_church_canceled_votes_on_same-sex_marriage_and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32388","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Why the United Methodist Church canceled votes on same-sex marriage and gay clergy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>United Methodists concluded their General Conference last Friday (May 4) without voting on gay clergy or same-sex marriage, a surprising end to a disappointing week for gay activists.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the nearly 1,000 delegates gathered in Tampa, Fla., soundly rejected two motions that would have amended the United Methodist Church&#8217;s book of doctrine and rules, which calls the practice of homosexuality &#8220;incompatible with Christian teaching.&#8221; After those votes, protesters flooded the convention floor, briefly shutting down the conference&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/faith\/leaders-and-institutions\/methodists-drop-votes-on-gay-marriage-clergy\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Methodists concluded their General Conference last Friday (May 4) without voting on gay clergy or same-sex marriage, a surprising end to a disappointing week for gay activists. On Thursday, the nearly 1,000 delegates gathered in Tampa, Fla., soundly rejected<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32388\">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":[42,360,154,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-news-commentary","category-methodist","category-other-churches","category-sexuality-debate-other-denominations-and-faiths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32388","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=32388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}