{"id":3568,"date":"2007-12-17T16:39:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T16:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/an_npr_piece_on_the_san_joaquin_diocesan_decision\/"},"modified":"2007-12-17T16:39:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T16:39:00","slug":"an_npr_piece_on_the_san_joaquin_diocesan_decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=3568","title":{"rendered":"An NPR piece on the San Joaquin Diocesan Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Episcopal diocese in central California voted Saturday [December 8th]  to split with the national church over disagreements about the role of gays and lesbians in the church.<\/p>\n<p>Clergy and lay members of the Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin voted 173-22 at their annual convention to remove all references to the national church from the diocese&#8217;s constitution, according to spokeswoman Joan Gladstone.<\/p>\n<p>The Fresno-based congregation is the first full diocese to secede because of a conservative-liberal rift that began decades ago and is now focused on whether the Bible condemns gay relationships.<\/p>\n<p>David Steinmetz, professor of the History of Christianity at Duke University, talks to Andrea Seabrook about the rift.<\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=17049512\">Listen to it all<\/a> and please note for the record that it is Bishop Martyn Minns, not Mims<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Episcopal diocese in central California voted Saturday [December 8th] to split with the national church over disagreements about the role of gays and lesbians in the church. Clergy and lay members of the Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin voted<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=3568\">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":[36,66,376,658],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-conflicts-san-joaquin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568","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=3568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}