{"id":45034,"date":"2014-07-10T21:05:29","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T21:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/complaint_filed_against_36_methodist_pastors_who_officiated_at_the_nov-_9_s\/"},"modified":"2014-07-10T21:05:29","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T21:05:29","slug":"complaint_filed_against_36_methodist_pastors_who_officiated_at_the_nov-_9_s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45034","title":{"rendered":"Complaint Filed against 36 Methodist pastors who officiated at the Nov. 9 same-sex union in Penna."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>United Methodist Bishop Peggy Johnson, episcopal leader for the Philadelphia Area, said she has received a complaint against the 36 pastors who officiated at the Nov. 9 same-sex union of two men performed at Arch Street United Methodist Church but added the matter is confidential and will be \u201cprayerfully\u201d\u009d considered.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released by her office in the Eastern Pennsylvania Annual (regional) Conference, Johnson said, &#8220;We are following the Disciplinary process as outlined in paragraph 363 of the 2012 Book of Discipline of The United Methodist Church\u201d\u2039 and are prayerful that a just resolution can be achieved. As United Methodists, we are committed to seeking peace and reconciliation as a model for society. May it be so.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A list of the 36 pastors has not been released and a spokesperson for the group said the pastors were abiding by the bishop\u2019s wishes not to make any statements or speak to the media at this time.<\/p>\n<p>The names of the person or persons filing the complaint also have not been made public.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.umc.org\/news-and-media\/complaint-received-for-philly-same-sex-union\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Methodist Bishop Peggy Johnson, episcopal leader for the Philadelphia Area, said she has received a complaint against the 36 pastors who officiated at the Nov. 9 same-sex union of two men performed at Arch Street United Methodist Church but<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45034\">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":[48,42,175,168,360,435,154,184,159,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-methodist","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","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\/45034","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=45034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}