{"id":629,"date":"2007-06-26T08:48:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T08:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/defrocked_pastor_is_gay_hero_in_atlanta\/"},"modified":"2007-06-26T08:48:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-26T08:48:00","slug":"defrocked_pastor_is_gay_hero_in_atlanta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=629","title":{"rendered":"Defrocked pastor is gay hero in Atlanta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta- The tattered cloth scraps started arriving at St. John&#8217;s Lutheran Church shortly after the Rev. Bradley Schmeling took his stand against the church hierarchy, each with an embroidered or drawn message of support.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;God is with you. Make fire in Atlanta,&#8221; reads one of the hundreds of prayer cloths. &#8220;All love is holy,&#8221; says another.<\/p>\n<p>Schmeling&#8217;s refusal last year to resign after telling a church bishop he was in a gay relationship has earned him quite a following.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/news\/plaindealer\/index.ssf?\/base\/news\/1182771072284190.xml&#038;coll=2\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta- The tattered cloth scraps started arriving at St. John&#8217;s Lutheran Church shortly after the Rev. Bradley Schmeling took his stand against the church hierarchy, each with an embroidered or drawn message of support. &#8220;God is with you. Make fire<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=629\">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":[42,363,154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-news-commentary","category-lutheran","category-other-churches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","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=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}