{"id":33454,"date":"2012-07-08T19:10:38","date_gmt":"2012-07-08T19:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/reuters_u-s-_episcopalians_move_closer_to_allowing_transgender_ministers\/"},"modified":"2012-07-08T19:10:38","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T19:10:38","slug":"reuters_u-s-_episcopalians_move_closer_to_allowing_transgender_ministers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33454","title":{"rendered":"(Reuters) U.S. Episcopalians move closer to allowing transgender ministers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Episcopal Church&#8217;s House of Bishops on Saturday approved a proposal that, if it survives a final vote, would give transgender men and women the right to become ministers in the church.<\/p>\n<p>The House of Bishops voted at the church&#8217;s General Convention to include &#8220;gender identity and expression&#8221; in its &#8220;non-discrimination canons,&#8221; meaning sexual orientation, including that of people who have undergone sex-change operations, cannot be used to exclude candidates to ministry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.chicagotribune.com\/2012-07-07\/news\/sns-rt-us-usa-religion-transgenderbre867018-20120707_1_first-openly-gay-bishop-gene-robinson-episcopal-church\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Episcopal Church&#8217;s House of Bishops on Saturday approved a proposal that, if it survives a final vote, would give transgender men and women the right to become ministers in the church. The House of Bishops voted at the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33454\">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":[36,661,175,66,377,378,372,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-gen-con-2012","category-anthropology","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-executive-council","category-general-convention","category-tec-bishops","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33454","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=33454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}