{"id":39484,"date":"2013-08-10T19:28:36","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T19:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/star_tribune_minnesota_churches_preparing_for_same_sex_weddings_by_rewordin\/"},"modified":"2013-08-10T19:28:36","modified_gmt":"2013-08-10T19:28:36","slug":"star_tribune_minnesota_churches_preparing_for_same_sex_weddings_by_rewordin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39484","title":{"rendered":"(Star Tribune) Minnesota churches preparing for Same sex weddings by rewording parts of the service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop Bruce Caldwell, who leads St. Mark\u2019s Episcopal Cathedral in Minneapolis, said the church set up a booth in Loring Park during the Pride Festival in June advertising that it would perform gay weddings. So far, about eight same-sex weddings are scheduled at the church, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese folks really do want to get married and commit their lives to one another in a faithful union before God,\u201d\u009d Caldwell said.<\/p>\n<p>John Green, a professor at the University of Akron in Ohio who has written extensively about politics and religion, said churches that recognize same-sex unions will adapt as time goes on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macon.com\/2013\/08\/09\/2599867\/minnesota-churches-preparing-for.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop Bruce Caldwell, who leads St. Mark\u2019s Episcopal Cathedral in Minneapolis, said the church set up a booth in Loring Park during the Pride Festival in June advertising that it would perform gay weddings. So far, about eight same-sex weddings<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39484\">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":[48,39,576,175,168,183,98,184,108,173,112,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-marriage-family","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-sacramental-theology","category-sexuality","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39484","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=39484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}