{"id":40109,"date":"2013-09-17T15:50:25","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T15:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/3_churches_in_tempe_arizone_pledge_their_support_for_same-sex_unions\/"},"modified":"2020-01-04T14:59:57","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T19:59:57","slug":"3_churches_in_tempe_arizone_pledge_their_support_for_same-sex_unions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40109","title":{"rendered":"(Arizona Republic) 3 churches in Tempe, Arizona, pledge their support for same-sex unions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Knowles is getting married next month.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the final stretch before the Phoenix resident\u2019s big day. Knowles and her fiancee, Rebecca Reeder, met with the photographer on Friday. The flowers will be peach and cream roses to match their wedding colors. The music will be a mix of \u201980s hits&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The wedding will be a first for the Rev. Doug Bland of Community Christian Church in Tempe. He has never officiated a ceremony for a same-sex couple.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ve chosen to call it a wedding even though it\u2019s not in the eyes of the state,\u201d\u009d Bland said. \u201cThey want to use the language of wedding rather than a union ceremony because &#8230; their relationship is a public commitment to each other.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/community\/tempe\/articles\/20130916tempe-churches-support-marriage-equality.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Knowles is getting married next month. It\u2019s the final stretch before the Phoenix resident\u2019s big day. Knowles and her fiancee, Rebecca Reeder, met with the photographer on Friday. The flowers will be peach and cream roses to match their<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40109\">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":[36,39,40,42,576,175,66,168,114,154,151,108,112,380,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anthropology","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-other-churches","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","category-tec-parishes","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40109","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=40109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88253,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40109\/revisions\/88253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}