{"id":33425,"date":"2012-07-07T18:51:16","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T18:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/reasserters_layman-assembly_upholds_definition_of_marriage_defeats_ai\/"},"modified":"2012-07-07T18:51:16","modified_gmt":"2012-07-07T18:51:16","slug":"reasserters_layman-assembly_upholds_definition_of_marriage_defeats_ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33425","title":{"rendered":"(Reasserters) Layman&#8211;PCUSA General Assembly upholds definition of marriage, defeats AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a long and complicated debate Friday afternoon and evening of General Assembly, the gathered commissioners chose to maintain the Biblical definition of marriage. They voted down overtures to redefine marriage and to issue an authoritative interpretation to allow teaching elders to conduct marriages for same sex couples in states where that is legal.  Instead, the assembly approved a two-year \u201cseason of serious study and discernment\u201d\u009d for presbyteries and congregations regarding the meaning of Christian marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioner Bill Thro remarked, \u201cThis is a Gideon moment \u201d\u201c a victory that never would have happened. I think God saved the PCUSA from schism tonight. I am humbled that God called my colleagues and me to play a role in this drama.\u201d\u009d Thro was a member of the Civil Unions and Marriage Committee and presented one of the minority reports.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/layman.org\/news.aspx?article=30488\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a long and complicated debate Friday afternoon and evening of General Assembly, the gathered commissioners chose to maintain the Biblical definition of marriage. They voted down overtures to redefine marriage and to issue an authoritative interpretation to allow teaching<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33425\">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":[39,42,576,175,168,114,98,154,417,108,112,159,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-other-churches","category-presbyterian","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","category-sexuality-debate-other-denominations-and-faiths","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33425","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=33425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}