{"id":41152,"date":"2013-11-20T17:00:10","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T17:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_ap_article_on_frank_schaefer_being_suspended_30_days_for_performing_a_s\/"},"modified":"2013-11-20T17:00:10","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T17:00:10","slug":"the_ap_article_on_frank_schaefer_being_suspended_30_days_for_performing_a_s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41152","title":{"rendered":"The Phil. Inquirer art. on Frank Schaefer being suspended 30 days for performing a same-sex wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Schaefer, a Methodist pastor put on trial for presiding over his son&#8217;s same-sex wedding, said he expected to be defrocked at the end of that period.<\/p>\n<p>If asked, he said, he would officiate over another gay marriage during his 30-day suspension.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am no longer willing to accept the church&#8217;s hate speeches, the church&#8217;s treatment of some people like they are second-grade Christians. We must stop harming beloved children of God in the name of Christ,&#8221; said Schaefer, pastor of Zion United Methodist Church of Iona in Lebanon County, Pa.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/news\/20131120_Gay_marriage_pastor_s_sentencing_hearing_underway.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schaefer, a Methodist pastor put on trial for presiding over his son&#8217;s same-sex wedding, said he expected to be defrocked at the end of that period. If asked, he said, he would officiate over another gay marriage during his 30-day<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41152\">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":[42,175,168,360,154,159,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-methodist","category-other-churches","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\/41152","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=41152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}