{"id":33464,"date":"2012-07-09T14:38:43","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T14:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/diocese_of_maryland_adrien_dawson_on_general_con-_2012-what_is_our_role_in\/"},"modified":"2012-07-09T14:38:43","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T14:38:43","slug":"diocese_of_maryland_adrien_dawson_on_general_con-_2012-what_is_our_role_in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33464","title":{"rendered":"(Diocese of Maryland) Adrien Dawson on General Con. 2012&#8211;What is Our Role in Peace for Palestine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday afternoon, the Committee for National and International Concerns heard testimony on about 12 resolutions encouraging the church to act in support of the Palestinian people. Even our own Diocese of Maryland put forth a resolution on this complex issue. After reading the resolutions and listening to the testimony, here is my distillation of the arguments at hand.<br \/>\nNo one disagrees that Palestine and the minority community of Palestinian Christians are being oppressed, persecuted, and denied basic human rights. Everyone also agrees that in the United States, the story of the Palestinian Christian people is not widely known and they feel forgotten by their brothers and sisters in the West.<\/p>\n<p>But how do you fight the oppression and discrimination of a people?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gc2012.episcopalmaryland.org\/?p=84\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday afternoon, the Committee for National and International Concerns heard testimony on about 12 resolutions encouraging the church to act in support of the Palestinian people. Even our own Diocese of Maryland put forth a resolution on this complex issue.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33464\">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":[36,50,661,66,378,203,567],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-international-news-commentary","category-gen-con-2012","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-general-convention","category-middle-east","category-the-palestinianisraeli-struggle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33464","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=33464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}