{"id":32571,"date":"2012-05-18T18:00:01","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T18:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_calif-_presbyterians_refuse_to_rebuke_the_rev-_janie_spahr_over_same_se\/"},"modified":"2012-05-18T18:00:01","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T18:00:01","slug":"rns_calif-_presbyterians_refuse_to_rebuke_the_rev-_janie_spahr_over_same_se","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32571","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) California Presbyterians refuse to rebuke the Rev. Janie Spahr over Same Sex Marriages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an unprecedented act of defiance, a California branch of the Presbyterian Church (USA) refused a ruling from a church court to rebuke a pastor who wed same-sex couples.<\/p>\n<p>The Napa-based Presbytery of the Redwoods voted 74-18 on Tuesday (May 15) to instead praise the Rev. Janie Spahr, who wed 16 same-sex couples when gay marriage was legal in California in 2008.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/culture\/gender-and-sexuality\/calif.-presbyterians-refuse-to-rebuke-the-rev.-janie-spahr-over-gay-marriag\">Read it all<\/a> and also note an LA Times article on this matter <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2012\/may\/16\/local\/la-me-0516-minister-rebuke-20120516\">is there<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an unprecedented act of defiance, a California branch of the Presbyterian Church (USA) refused a ruling from a church court to rebuke a pastor who wed same-sex couples. The Napa-based Presbytery of the Redwoods voted 74-18 on Tuesday (May<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32571\">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":[48,39,42,576,168,98,435,154,184,177,417,108,112,159,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32571","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-ethics-moral-theology","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\/32571","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=32571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}