{"id":37250,"date":"2013-02-11T22:14:08","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T22:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/aberdeen_church_considers_breaking_with_kirk_over_lifting_of_ban_on_ministe\/"},"modified":"2013-02-11T22:14:08","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T22:14:08","slug":"aberdeen_church_considers_breaking_with_kirk_over_lifting_of_ban_on_ministe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37250","title":{"rendered":"Aberdeen Church considers breaking with Kirk over lifting of ban on ministers in same sex unions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A church in Aberdeen wants to break away from the Church of Scotland because of the institution&#8217;s decision to lift its ban on appointing gay ministers.<\/p>\n<p>Reverend Dominic Smart said elders at Gilcomston South Church in Aberdeen, pictured, disagreed with the General Assembly&#8217;s resolution, feeling it had &#8220;marginalised&#8221; the Bible.<\/p>\n<p>He insisted the assembly&#8217;s May decision on same-sex partnerships represented a &#8220;clear and deliberate move away from the authority of scripture&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotsman.com\/news\/church-considers-breaking-with-kirk-over-lifting-of-gay-minister-ban-1-1680106\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A church in Aberdeen wants to break away from the Church of Scotland because of the institution&#8217;s decision to lift its ban on appointing gay ministers. Reverend Dominic Smart said elders at Gilcomston South Church in Aberdeen, pictured, disagreed with<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37250\">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":[48,50,42,175,199,168,154,184,417,326,159,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-presbyterian","category-scotland","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\/37250","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=37250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}