{"id":44550,"date":"2014-06-11T17:30:33","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T17:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_southern_baptists_oppose_gender_reassignment\/"},"modified":"2014-06-11T17:30:33","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T17:30:33","slug":"rns_southern_baptists_oppose_gender_reassignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44550","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Southern Baptists oppose gender reassignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pushing back against a cultural tide of growing acceptance of transgender people, Southern Baptists adopted a statement affirming the creation of \u201ctwo distinct and complementary sexes.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The resolution was passed overwhelmingly Tuesday (June 10) as some 5,000 people attended the annual meeting of the nation\u2019s largest Protestant denomination and elected as president the Rev. Ronnie Floyd, pastor of a northwest Arkansas megachurch.<\/p>\n<p>The delegates, known as \u201cmessengers,\u201d\u009d affirmed \u201cGod\u2019s good design that gender identity is determined by biological sex and not by one\u2019s self-perception.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2014\/06\/10\/southern-baptists-oppose-gender-reassignment\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pushing back against a cultural tide of growing acceptance of transgender people, Southern Baptists adopted a statement affirming the creation of \u201ctwo distinct and complementary sexes.\u201d\u009d The resolution was passed overwhelmingly Tuesday (June 10) as some 5,000 people attended the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44550\">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":[39,42,175,422,168,104,154,108,112,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-baptists","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44550","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=44550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}