{"id":42126,"date":"2014-01-18T02:10:37","date_gmt":"2014-01-18T02:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap_us_methodist_clergyman_charged_over_same_sex_wedding\/"},"modified":"2014-01-18T02:10:37","modified_gmt":"2014-01-18T02:10:37","slug":"ap_us_methodist_clergyman_charged_over_same_sex_wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42126","title":{"rendered":"(AP) US Methodist Clergyman Charged Over Same Sex Wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Methodist Church has formally charged another clergyman for presiding at the same-sex wedding of his son.<\/p>\n<p>The Rev. Thomas Ogletree will be tried March 10 for violating church law against officiating at gay unions, his spokeswoman, Dorothee Benz, announced Friday. It&#8217;s the second high-profile United Methodist trial in recent months over same-sex relationships. In December, pastor Frank Schaefer of central Pennsylvania was defrocked after he officiated at his son&#8217;s gay wedding. The church considers homosexuality &#8220;incompatible with Christian teaching.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ogletree is a theologian, a former Yale Divinity School dean and a retired elder in the church&#8217;s New York district, or Annual Conference. Some clergy had filed a complaint after his son&#8217;s 2012 wedding announcement appeared in The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/ny-methodist-clergyman-charged-gay-wedding-21572538\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Methodist Church has formally charged another clergyman for presiding at the same-sex wedding of his son. The Rev. Thomas Ogletree will be tried March 10 for violating church law against officiating at gay unions, his spokeswoman, Dorothee Benz,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42126\">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":[39,42,576,175,168,98,360,154,112,159,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-methodist","category-other-churches","category-sexuality","category-sexuality-debate-other-denominations-and-faiths","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42126","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=42126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}