{"id":41647,"date":"2013-12-19T20:27:09","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T20:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/methodist_pastor_who_officiated_at_ssame-sex_wedding_has_been_defrocked\/"},"modified":"2013-12-19T20:27:09","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T20:27:09","slug":"methodist_pastor_who_officiated_at_ssame-sex_wedding_has_been_defrocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41647","title":{"rendered":"Methodist pastor who officiated at same-sex wedding has been defrocked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rev. Frank Schaefer of Lebanon had already been suspended when he met with church officials to determine whether he would continue as a pastor.<\/p>\n<p>Schaefer had been told to resign from the clergy by Thursday if he could not follow the denomination&#8217;s Book of Discipline. But Schaefer has said the book discriminates against gay people and vowed this week that he would not voluntarily surrender his credentials.<\/p>\n<p>Church spokesman John Coleman said that officials decided to defrock him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/wireStory\/pa-methodist-pastor-learn-job-fate-thursday-21272453\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rev. Frank Schaefer of Lebanon had already been suspended when he met with church officials to determine whether he would continue as a pastor. Schaefer had been told to resign from the clergy by Thursday if he could not<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41647\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41647","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41647","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=41647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}