{"id":40796,"date":"2013-10-29T16:00:42","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T16:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/umns_methodist_bishop_talbert_performs_alabama_wedding_for_two_men\/"},"modified":"2013-10-29T16:00:42","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T16:00:42","slug":"umns_methodist_bishop_talbert_performs_alabama_wedding_for_two_men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40796","title":{"rendered":"(UMNS) [Methodist] Bishop Talbert performs Alabama wedding for two men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 4:30 p.m. on Oct. 26, the doors shut out the disagreements about church law as United Methodists Joe Openshaw and Bobby Prince vowed to love each other for the rest of their lives in a wedding ceremony performed by retired Bishop Melvin G. Talbert.<\/p>\n<p>Before the wedding. television cameras from several news stations rolled outside Covenant Community United Church of Christ. The two men and Bishop Talbert faced questions about why, and what it would mean for them to disregard their denomination\u2019s stance that the practice of homosexuality is not compatible with Christian teaching and that ordained clergy are forbidden to perform a same-sex marriage&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>For Talbert, the answer to why and what lies ahead is more complicated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn May 4, 2012 (during the 2012 United Methodist General Conference), I declared that the church\u2019s official position is wrong and evil \u201d\u00a6it no longer calls for our obedience.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/umcconnections.org\/2013\/10\/26\/bishop-talbert-performs-alabama-wedding-two-men\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 4:30 p.m. on Oct. 26, the doors shut out the disagreements about church law as United Methodists Joe Openshaw and Bobby Prince vowed to love each other for the rest of their lives in a wedding ceremony performed by<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40796\">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":[48,42,175,168,183,360,435,154,184,159,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-methodist","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","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\/40796","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=40796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}