{"id":41203,"date":"2013-11-23T21:00:10","date_gmt":"2013-11-23T21:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/umns_methodist_minister_frank_schaefer_says_he_does_not_blame_others_for_hi\/"},"modified":"2013-11-23T21:00:10","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T21:00:10","slug":"umns_methodist_minister_frank_schaefer_says_he_does_not_blame_others_for_hi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41203","title":{"rendered":"(UMNS) Methodist Minister Frank Schaefer says he does not blame others for his trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to a group of reporters after the trial ended, he said he was surprised he walked out of the trial with the title of \u201cRev.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI gave them every excuse in the book to defrock me immediately but that did not happen,\u201d\u009d he said. \u201cI am still wondering what it means. I told them clearly that I can no longer be a silent supporter but now I feel I have to an outspoken advocate for all lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual people.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The 30-day suspension seems to be \u201ctime for me to change my mind,\u201d\u009d he said. \u201cI am here to tell you, I will not change my mind. I am what I am.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/umcconnections.org\/2013\/11\/22\/schaefer-says-blame-others-trial\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to a group of reporters after the trial ended, he said he was surprised he walked out of the trial with the title of \u201cRev.\u201d\u009d \u201cI gave them every excuse in the book to defrock me immediately but that<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41203\">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":[48,39,50,42,576,209,175,168,183,98,360,435,154,184,108,112,159,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","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-liturgy-music-worship","category-marriage-family","category-methodist","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","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\/41203","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=41203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}