{"id":48372,"date":"2015-02-13T18:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T18:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/umns_methodist_church_body_proposes_language_change_in_its_stance_on_same-s\/"},"modified":"2015-02-13T18:00:20","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T18:00:20","slug":"umns_methodist_church_body_proposes_language_change_in_its_stance_on_same-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48372","title":{"rendered":"(UMNS) Methodist Church body proposes language change in its stance on Same-sex Unions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Methodist Church could have openly gay clergy and clergy could officiate at same-sex marriages if a proposal affirmed by a denomination-wide leadership body prevails.<\/p>\n<p>The Connectional Table plans to draft legislation that members hope can be \u201ca third way\u201d\u009d in church\u2019s long debate over homosexuality.<\/p>\n<p>The body on Feb. 10 overwhelmingly affirmed a proposal to remove prohibitive language that makes it a chargeable offense under church law for clergy to be \u201cself-avowed practicing homosexuals\u201d\u009d or to officiate at same-sex weddings.<\/p>\n<p>The action was not a formal vote, but the reported results of two hours of small-group discussions. The Connectional Table will take up proposed legislative language for an actual vote when it meets in May in Nashville, Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.umc.org\/news-and-media\/church-body-proposes-more-open-stance-on-homosexuality\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Methodist Church could have openly gay clergy and clergy could officiate at same-sex marriages if a proposal affirmed by a denomination-wide leadership body prevails. The Connectional Table plans to draft legislation that members hope can be \u201ca third<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48372\">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":[48,39,42,175,168,98,360,154,184,177,108,112,159,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-methodist","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","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\/48372","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=48372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}