{"id":5079,"date":"2008-03-14T02:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T02:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/lutheran_group_keeps_marriage_traditional\/"},"modified":"2008-03-14T02:11:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-14T02:11:00","slug":"lutheran_group_keeps_marriage_traditional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=5079","title":{"rendered":"Lutheran group keeps marriage traditional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A task force drafting a statement on sexuality for the nation&#8217;s largest Lutheran group said Thursday that the church should continue defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman.<\/p>\n<p>However, the panel did not condemn same-gender relationships. The committee expressed regret that historic Lutheran teachings have been used to hurt gays and lesbians, and acknowledged that some congregations already accept same-sex couples.<\/p>\n<p>The report released by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is part of the denomination&#8217;s yearslong effort to bridge internal differences over the Bible and homosexuality.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/2008-03-13-lutheran-marriage_N.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A task force drafting a statement on sexuality for the nation&#8217;s largest Lutheran group said Thursday that the church should continue defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman. However, the panel did not condemn same-gender relationships.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=5079\">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":[39,42,363,98,154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-lutheran","category-marriage-family","category-other-churches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5079","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=5079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}