{"id":40662,"date":"2013-10-21T16:28:18","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T16:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/umns_same_sex_wedding_bells_sound_a_challenge_forthe_church\/"},"modified":"2013-10-21T16:28:18","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T16:28:18","slug":"umns_same_sex_wedding_bells_sound_a_challenge_forthe_church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40662","title":{"rendered":"(UMNS) Same Sex Wedding bells sound a challenge for the church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For these two United Methodist men, the only thing missing from their love story is a holy ceremony officiated and blessed by a United Methodist pastor in the presence of their family and friends in Birmingham, Ala.<\/p>\n<p>That day will come on Oct. 26, and retired United Methodist Bishop Melvin Talbert will officiate at their wedding.<\/p>\n<p>[Joe] Openshaw, [Bobby] Prince and [Bishop Melvin] Talbert are publicly defying the denomination\u2019s law book, which states marriage is only between a man and a woman and that no ordained United Methodist elder can officiate at a same-sex union.<\/p>\n<p>They do this knowing the consequences.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/umcconnections.org\/2013\/10\/16\/wedding-bells-sound-challenge-church\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For these two United Methodist men, the only thing missing from their love story is a holy ceremony officiated and blessed by a United Methodist pastor in the presence of their family and friends in Birmingham, Ala. That day will<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40662\">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":[39,50,42,576,209,175,168,114,98,360,154,108,112,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-americau-s-a","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-methodist","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40662","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=40662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}