{"id":41666,"date":"2013-12-21T18:59:23","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T18:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/w-_post_methodist_officials_pull_credentials_of_pastor_who_officiated_sons_\/"},"modified":"2013-12-21T18:59:23","modified_gmt":"2013-12-21T18:59:23","slug":"w-_post_methodist_officials_pull_credentials_of_pastor_who_officiated_sons_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41666","title":{"rendered":"(W. Post) Methodist officials pull credentials of pastor who officiated son\u2019s same-sex wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About half of Schaefer\u2019s former church left since news of the wedding became public this spring, a combination of supporters struggling with the turmoil and critics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat should be a neutral setting right now \u201d\u201d a church \u201d\u201d is not, it\u2019s a hostile place,\u201d\u009d said Jon Boger, whose complaint about Schaefer set the case off. \u201cBut time heals everything, right?\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Liam Casey, a Zion member, said he had hoped Schaefer would find a way to stay.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/united-methodist-officials-pull-credentials-of-pastor-who-officiated-sons-same-sex-wedding\/2013\/12\/19\/1bc649cc-68c4-11e3-8b5b-a77187b716a3_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About half of Schaefer\u2019s former church left since news of the wedding became public this spring, a combination of supporters struggling with the turmoil and critics. \u201cWhat should be a neutral setting right now \u201d\u201d a church \u201d\u201d is not,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41666\">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":[48,39,42,576,175,168,183,98,360,435,154,184,112,159,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","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-sexuality","category-sexuality-debate-other-denominations-and-faiths","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41666","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=41666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}