{"id":40661,"date":"2013-10-21T16:00:31","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T16:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/phil_inq-_pennsylvania_unit-_methodist_pastors_to_officiate_jointly_at_same\/"},"modified":"2013-10-21T16:00:31","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T16:00:31","slug":"phil_inq-_pennsylvania_unit-_methodist_pastors_to_officiate_jointly_at_same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40661","title":{"rendered":"(Phil Inq.) Pennsylvania Unit. Methodist Pastors to officiate jointly at same-sex marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 30 United Methodist pastors from Eastern Pennsylvania have agreed to jointly officiate a same-sex marriage next month, an unprecedented showing of solidarity for an embattled colleague that could lead to their ouster from the pulpit.<\/p>\n<p>The colleague is the Rev. Frank Schaefer, who faces a Nov. 18 church trial in Chester County for officiating at the 2007 marriage between his son and another man.<\/p>\n<p>Schaefer&#8217;s fellow pastors call that an act of love, not a prosecutable offense. They gathered Thursday at a Philadelphia church and, after more than two hours, agreed to preside as a group at a same-sex marriage, a step they hope jolts the larger church.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/news\/20131020_Pastors_to_jointly_officiate_at_same-sex_marriage.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 30 United Methodist pastors from Eastern Pennsylvania have agreed to jointly officiate a same-sex marriage next month, an unprecedented showing of solidarity for an embattled colleague that could lead to their ouster from the pulpit. The colleague is<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40661\">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":[39,42,576,175,168,114,98,360,154,177,108,112,159,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-methodist","category-other-churches","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","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\/40661","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=40661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}