{"id":32958,"date":"2012-06-09T21:14:05","date_gmt":"2012-06-09T21:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/central_pennsylvania_bishop_faces_decision_on_blessing_same-sex_unions\/"},"modified":"2012-06-09T21:14:05","modified_gmt":"2012-06-09T21:14:05","slug":"central_pennsylvania_bishop_faces_decision_on_blessing_same-sex_unions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32958","title":{"rendered":"Central Pennsylvania bishop faces decision on blessing same-sex unions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Nathan] Baxter, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central Pennsylvania, will announce his decision this weekend at the 142nd annual diocesan convention in State College. Three-hundred people from the 66 parishes in the 24-county diocese will attend.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Episcopal Church has ordained openly gay bishops in the United States, it has not taken an official stand on gay marriage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Episcopal Church says that homosexuality in and of itself is not a sin,\u201d\u009d Baxter said. \u201cWe are called to love and respect all persons as being loved by God. I am listening to all views as I discern whether to approve blessing same-sex unions.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennlive.com\/midstate\/index.ssf\/2012\/06\/episcopal_diocese_of_central_p.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Nathan] Baxter, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central Pennsylvania, will announce his decision this weekend at the 142nd annual diocesan convention in State College. Three-hundred people from the 66 parishes in the 24-county diocese will attend. Although the Episcopal<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32958\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32958","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=32958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}