{"id":33393,"date":"2012-07-06T15:00:27","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T15:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/reuters_episcopalians_debate_transgender_issue_in_ministry\/"},"modified":"2012-07-06T15:00:27","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T15:00:27","slug":"reuters_episcopalians_debate_transgender_issue_in_ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33393","title":{"rendered":"(Reuters) Episcopalians debate transgender issue in Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A proposal to expand the U.S. Episcopal Church&#8217;s nondiscrimination canons for the ordained ministry to include &#8220;gender identity and expression&#8221; passed its first hurdle on Thursday, when it won committee approval at the church&#8217;s General Convention&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Please don&#8217;t focus on us as an abstract issue,&#8221; said Rev. Vicki Gray, a deacon at Christ the Lord Episcopal Church in Pinole, California, who identifies as transgender. &#8220;We are flesh-and-blood human beings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The resolution is important so transgender people can have access to our church. &#8216;All&#8217; is not sufficient,&#8221; said Gray.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/sns-rt-us-usa-religion-gaymarriage-transgenderbre865017-20120705,0,1286151.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A proposal to expand the U.S. Episcopal Church&#8217;s nondiscrimination canons for the ordained ministry to include &#8220;gender identity and expression&#8221; passed its first hurdle on Thursday, when it won committee approval at the church&#8217;s General Convention&#8230;.. &#8220;Please don&#8217;t focus on<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33393\">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":[36,48,661,175,66,378,184,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-gen-con-2012","category-anthropology","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-general-convention","category-parish-ministry","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33393","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=33393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}