{"id":59403,"date":"2017-04-28T19:00:36","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T23:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59403"},"modified":"2017-04-28T19:29:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T23:29:42","slug":"umns-consecration-of-methodist-woman-bishop-who-is-married-2-another-woman-is-against-church-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59403","title":{"rendered":"(UMNS)&#8211;Consecration of Methodist woman Bishop who is married 2 another woman is against church law"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">UMNS&#8211;Consecration of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Methodist?src=hash\">#Methodist<\/a> woman Bishop who is married 2 another woman is against church law <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/religion?src=hash\">#religion<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ethics?src=hash\">#ethics<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tBQ2JXEqR4\">https:\/\/t.co\/tBQ2JXEqR4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kendall Harmon (@KendallHarmon6) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KendallHarmon6\/status\/858092908448292864\">April 28, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The consecration of a gay bishop violates church law, the top court of The United Methodist Church has ruled.<\/p>\n<p>However, the bishop \u201cremains in good standing,\u201d the Judicial Council said in Decision 1341, until an administrative or judicial process is completed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder the long-standing principle of legality, no individual member or entity may violate, ignore or negate church law,\u201d said the decision, made public April 28. \u201cIt is not lawful for the college of bishops of any jurisdictional or central conference to consecrate a self-avowed practicing homosexual bishop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.umc.org\/news-and-media\/consecration-of-gay-bishop-against-church-law\">Read it carefully and read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UMNS&#8211;Consecration of #Methodist woman Bishop who is married 2 another woman is against church law #religion #ethics https:\/\/t.co\/tBQ2JXEqR4 &mdash; Kendall Harmon (@KendallHarmon6) April 28, 2017 The consecration of a gay bishop violates church law, the top court of The United<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59403\">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":[360,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-methodist","category-sexuality-debate-other-denominations-and-faiths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59403","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=59403"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59406,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59403\/revisions\/59406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}