{"id":49861,"date":"2015-05-18T01:45:02","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T01:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/scotsman_kirk_vote_clears_the_way_for_ministers_in_same-sex_partnerships\/"},"modified":"2015-05-18T01:45:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T01:45:02","slug":"scotsman_kirk_vote_clears_the_way_for_ministers_in_same-sex_partnerships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49861","title":{"rendered":"(Scotsman) Kirk vote clears the way for ministers in same-sex partnerships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier last week, the outgoing moderator, the Right Reverend John Chalmers, issued an appeal for calm in the run-up to the debate and also called for a \u201cyear of grace\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>During the debate, the Rev Gordon Kennedy from Edin-burgh said: \u201cThis has been the greatest cause for the expression of disunity in our church for 170 years. The only fruit this will bear is disharmony and disunity,\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>But the Rev Dr Ian Whyte strongly disagreed and said he had witnessed the suffering of gay ministers who felt they had to hide their sexuality.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotsman.com\/news\/politics\/top-stories\/kirk-vote-clears-the-way-for-gay-ministers-1-3775078\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier last week, the outgoing moderator, the Right Reverend John Chalmers, issued an appeal for calm in the run-up to the debate and also called for a \u201cyear of grace\u201d\u009d. During the debate, the Rev Gordon Kennedy from Edin-burgh said:<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49861\">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":[48,50,42,175,199,168,435,154,184,177,417,326,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-presbyterian","category-scotland","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49861","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=49861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}