{"id":41594,"date":"2013-12-16T21:30:33","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T21:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap_methodist_pastor_in_pa-_wont_surrender_credentials_over_sons_same-sex_we\/"},"modified":"2013-12-16T21:30:33","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T21:30:33","slug":"ap_methodist_pastor_in_pa-_wont_surrender_credentials_over_sons_same-sex_we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41594","title":{"rendered":"(AP) Methodist pastor in Pa. won&#39;t surrender credentials over son&#39;s same-sex wedding; defies order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A United Methodist minister in Pennsylvania plans to defy a church order to surrender his credentials for performing a same-sex wedding.<\/p>\n<p>The Rev. Frank Schaefer says he cannot uphold the church&#8217;s Book of Discipline because he finds it discriminatory. The Methodist church accepts gay and lesbian members but rejects the practice of homosexuality as &#8220;incompatible with Christian teaching.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.therepublic.com\/view\/story\/64dcb99ffefa4bf098b2491010bb6fd5\/US--Gay-Marriage-Methodists\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A United Methodist minister in Pennsylvania plans to defy a church order to surrender his credentials for performing a same-sex wedding. The Rev. Frank Schaefer says he cannot uphold the church&#8217;s Book of Discipline because he finds it discriminatory. The<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41594\">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":[42,175,168,360,154,177,159,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-methodist","category-other-churches","category-pastoral-theology","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\/41594","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=41594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}