{"id":54425,"date":"2016-05-19T03:11:50","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T03:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/umns_methodist_bishops_ask_for_hold_on_sexuality_debate_until_commission_st\/"},"modified":"2016-05-19T03:11:50","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T03:11:50","slug":"umns_methodist_bishops_ask_for_hold_on_sexuality_debate_until_commission_st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54425","title":{"rendered":"(UMNS) Methodist Bishops ask for hold on sexuality debate until commission study is completed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Council of Bishops asked General Conference to delay a debate on homosexuality at this gathering of the denomination\u2019s top legislative assembly until a proposed commission can study church regulations.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the bishops asked for the body\u2019s permission to name a special commission that would completely examine and possibly recommend revisions of every paragraph in the Book of Discipline related to human sexuality. The commission would represent the different regions of a denomination on four continents as well as the varied perspectives of the church.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.umc.org\/news-and-media\/bishops-ask-for-hold-on-sexuality-debate\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Council of Bishops asked General Conference to delay a debate on homosexuality at this gathering of the denomination\u2019s top legislative assembly until a proposed commission can study church regulations. Instead, the bishops asked for the body\u2019s permission to name<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54425\">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":[42,175,172,168,360,154,177,159,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-ecclesiology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-methodist","category-other-churches","category-pastoral-theology","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\/54425","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=54425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}